Angelina at Women in the World

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Angelina Jolie speaking about Pakistan’s wounded teenage activist Malala Yousafzai at the extraordinary Women in the World Summit last night. Today - Hillary Clinton and many more great speakers. #wiw13

Fantastic photo from Newsweek’s Christopher Dickey.

If you’re not watching the Women in the World livestream right now, well, you should probably check it out! Some fantastic live journalism going on right now. Up now: Syria. 

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Secretary of State Hillary closes the truly wonderful 2012 Women in the World Summit. Visit our site for complete coverage.

(photo via @DontSpkWhinese) 

What a finale! 

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Backstage at Women in the World, Afghan elder Bibi Hokmina asked U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to please stop the night raids in her country. U.S. and Afghan forces frequently drop from helicopters to search the homes of suspected Taliban fighters, a practice that’s tremendously unpopular in Afghanistan. Hokmina told Napolitano that the raids violate women and children, and Napolitano replied that she would take Hokmina’s message all the way to the top. Admiral William McRaven estimates 2,800 raids were carried out last year.

Backstage diplomacy.

Female authority is still associated with childhood, and the last time a lot of powerful guys saw a powerful woman they were eight, and they feel regressed to childhood by a powerful woman in a way that they don’t feel with a man.

Gloria Steinem, on why there aren’t more women in power. (via cheatsheet)

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jessbennett:

Diane Von Furstenberg, Sheryl Sandberg and Tina Brown kick off The Daily Beast’s Women in the World summit @ Lincoln Center, with stories of girls around the world. #wiw12

First panel: forced marriage.

This was an amazing panel. We’ll have it up soon. But in the meantime you can watch on our Livestream, where Madeleine Albright and Charlie Rose will be talking about women and war. 

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There was talk between Tina Brown and Bill Clinton of Libya, of Egypt, and even the Peter King hearings, but one question that brought a chuckle to audience was this one: When will there be a woman president?

Sorry, y’all—we’ve been a little busy (trying to shake Bill Clinton’s hand at this panel, obvs). To recap: Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s Women in the World Summit is happening now—and we’re live-blogging it all here. 

Thursday ended with a bang as Tina Brown sat down with former President Bill Clinton for a wide-ranging conversation that spanned Col. Muammar Gaddafi (he’s “crazy”), Afghanistan (“getting rid of the Taliban was a good thing”) and the controversial Peter King hearings on Islam (he’s going about them all wrong). A few of the interview’s newsiest moments.

Tina: America has never had a female president.
Bill: It’s not my fault! (Laughs)

Read the rest.