March 22, 2002

International Coalition Plans New University for Asian Women

By JEN LIN-LIU

The television images are familiar to most people in the world: Afghan women covered from head to toe in drab material, forced under Taliban rule to hide their faces, barred from schools and from learning. Now, women in Afghanistan and other poor Asian countries -- a few of them, at least -- may one day benefit from an international coalition's plan to expose them to higher education.

Kamal Ahmad, a lawyer based in London at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, is leading an

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