A power move from women wanting to end child marriage before another generation of children have to deal with its consequences. Graca Machel, Michelle Obama, Melinda French Gates and Amal Clooney gathered activists (to share their stories), leaders (to share their skills) and funders (to share their resources) so that more and more girls, all girls, are "valued as full human beings", and not seen by family as a commodity, as Graca Machel, activist and founder of the Graça Machel Trust and the Foundation for Community Development, and former First Lady of South Africa and Mozambique, said 6 minutes into the final panel discussion.
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