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Ela Bhatt: education, empowerment and ending child marriage
“Empowerment is not a thing that can be given or taken back… when women do things, then that brings the empowerment.” In a video interview with UNICEF, Ela Bhatt discusses how she thinks child marriage can be stopped, how women can be empowered, and how much the status of women in India has progressed.
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