The Guardian – Staff Writer
“More than 58 million children around the world are missing out on a primary school education and the majority of them are girls, the former prime minister Julia Gillard has said…“It is morally just and right to educate girls,” Gillard told a free public lecture at the University of Adelaide on Monday. “It can also be looked at through a security lens. There is a reason that terrorists violently target the education of girls. Women’s empowerment is the antithesis of their brutal ideology of subjugation…””(more)