[afro-nets] Ashley Judd Makes Senate Plea for Vulnerable Women

[Karrie Carnes <KCARNES@psi.org>]

Ashley Judd Makes Senate Plea for Vulnerable Women
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In her debut appearance before Congress, Actress Ashley Judd, a
member of the Population Services International (PSI) Board of
Directors and global ambassador of its YouthAIDS initiative,
made an impassioned plea to do more to protect vulnerable girls
and women in developing countries from violence, sexual abuse
and HIV infection. Ms. Judd, who testified before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee at the invitation of its chairman
Sen. Richard Lugar, proposed a variety of ways the U.S. could
begin to change destructive social norms for the betterment of
girls and women.

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Karrie Carnes
Population Services International (PSI)
mailto:kcarnes@psi.org