生命之音组织表彰妇女(2)【沪江慢速VOA080422】

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Five Women Honored in Washington for Global Leadership (2/2)

Actress and activist Angelina Jolie presented the award; she played Mariane Pearl in the film version of the book.

Another winner, Kakenya Ntaiya of Kenya, travels widely as the first youth adviser to the United Nations Population Fund. She speaks about girls' education as a way to end child marriage and the painful custom in some cultures of cutting the sex organs of girls.

She agreed to follow this tradition if her father would let her finish high school instead of getting married. Then she persuaded leaders in her rural village to help send her to college in the United States. Kakenya Ntaiya expects to receive a doctorate in education next year. She plans to return to Kenya to establish a school for girls.

The final winner was Sheikha Lubna al-Qasimi in the United Arab Emirates. In two thousand four she became the first woman appointed as a finance minister in the Middle East. Now she heads a newly formed ministry of foreign trade. She is also a businesswoman and works with information technology.

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演员兼活跃分子安吉莉娜.朱莉出席了这次颁奖。她在一部由书改编的电影中饰演Mariane Pearl。

另一个获奖者，肯尼亚的Kakenya Ntaiya，游历各地，她是第一个向联合国人口基金组织提建议的年轻人。她谈到让女孩受教育是一个办法，可以结束童婚，也停止某些残忍的文化习俗比如割去女孩的生殖器官。

她同意接受割礼，条件是她的父亲让她完成高中学业而不是结婚。然后，她说服村里的长辈们帮忙资助她去美国上大学。Kakenya Ntaiya预期在明年获得博士学位，她计划回肯尼亚为（村里的）女孩们创办一所学校。

最后一位获奖者，Sheikha Lubna al Qasimi，来自阿联酋。2004年，她被任命为首位中东女财政部长。目前，她已经成立了一个新的外贸部。同时她也是名商人，从事信息技术工作。