Nicholas Kristof comments on what he found so inspiring about Urmi Basu. Urmi Basu founded New Light, a program and organization promoting gender equality in education along the fight to end violence against children and women. You can learn more about Urmi and New Light here: [ Ссылка ]

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide premiered on PBS October 1 and 2, 2012. A four-hour documentary series based on the bestselling book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, it follows Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde as they travel throughout the developing world to introduce women and girls who are living under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable—and fighting bravely to change them.

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