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Meet the 15-Year-Old from Rural Guatemala Who Addressed the U.N.

NPR | March 12, 2015

Guatemalan girl leader Emelin spoke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women alongside U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Melinda Gates about the obstacles girls face in her community and how she and Elba persuaded the mayor to implement and fund policies to help. Read the article here.