Media Note Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC December 4, 2006 U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council Partnership with Georgetown UniversityToday, Mrs. Laura Bush announced a new partnership between the U.S.-Afghan Women's Council and Georgetown University. Over the next two years, the Council and Georgetown will work to help empower Afghan women through educational opportunities, skills training, improving political and legal participation, and access to medical care. The U.S.-Afghan Women's Council is a bi-national Council of Americans and Afghans that meets semi-annually to address the status of Afghan women in the economic, education, health, political and judicial sectors. |