Mavis Leno of Feminist Majority on the need for Obama to focus on the rights of Afghan women Story Transcript U.S. Feminists for women’s rights in Afghanistan SHARMINI PERIES, JOURNALIST, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m in the McClatchy offices in Washington, DC, and I’m joined by Mavis Leno. She served as chair […]
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Mavis has been the chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan since 1997.[1] In 1999, she and her husband donated $100,000 to the organization, to further the cause of educating the public about the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban.The organization successfully protested the construction of an oil pipeline through Afghanistan, which could potentially have brought in billions of dollars to the Taliban.[Mavis Leno was a driving force in changing the opinion of US President Bill Clinton and the executives of the now defunct oil company Unocal Corporation concerning the Taliban, after Leno had shed light on the group's heinous treatment of women.[citation needed]
