...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
and Pak activist Malala Yousafzai have asked those, who do not believe there is a place of girls' rights in Islam, to re-read the Koran and rethink Islam's teaching about women.
The two iconic global female figures made the suggestions at the first ever Girl Summit at Walworth Academy in UK capital London yesterday.
The British government and Unicef have jointly organised the one-day summit to promote what British premier
David Cameron... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
said was a global movement against "preventable evils" such as child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Hasina and Malala were accompanied by Cameron and Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
First Lady Chantal Compaore in the lone high-level session of the summit yesterday.
Alongside formal representation from 21 countries and more than 200 NGOs from around 30 other countries, Hasina and Cameron were the only heads of governments to take part in the summit.
Yesterday, the summit passed a charter in which 21 signatory countries and the other participants made various pledges to end FGM and child, early and forced marriages.
World Health Organisation defines Female Genital Mutilation as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons." FGM is common in the African continent.