Senator Klobuchar on Empowering Women

Apr 2nd, 2009 5:57 PM UTC
By Libby Crimmings

Senator Amy Klobuchar has been an active supporter of ONE and during the ONE Vote ’08 campaign she became our official state co-chair for Minnesota. There are over 38,000 ONE members in Minnesota and the volunteers have done many amazing things in the past.

Check out this letter to the editor that Senator Klobuchar wrote. We are very fortunate for Senator Klobuchar’s ongoing support and are thrilled for this piece.

Excerpts below, full letter here

Of the 1.2 billion people living in poverty around the world, 70 percent are women. According to a 2008 progress report on the Millennium Development Goals , more than 500,000 women in developing countries still die each year from complications of childbirth. These conditions are shameful.

Today, far too many women across the world face oppression and violence simply because of their gender. Too many women are treated as second-class citizens when it comes to their health. And too many young girls are denied the education they need to succeed.

-Libby Crimmings

TAGS: Minnesota, Women ONE2ONE, Women and Violence