Jennifer Klein
"We Should All Be Grateful To Them" - White House Expresses Support to Courageous Women In Azerbaijan
The White House on Thursday expressed its support to courageous women who are targeted globally, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
Speaking before foreign reporters during a virtual press briefing organized by the State Department's Foreign Press Center, Jennifer Klein, the co-chair and executive director of the White House Gender Policy Council, said that Washington will pursue gender equality "through diplomacy, development, trade, and defense".
The Biden administration last month established the Gender Policy Council, which is tasked with helping push gender equity on the administration's domestic and foreign policy efforts.
When asked about Azerbaijan's recent targeting of Women of Courage Awardee Shahla Humbatova, and the daughter of the country's opposition leader Jamil Hasanli, Klein told TURAN's Washington correspondent that "we should all be grateful to [the courageous women]. And we are."
The new White House council, comprised of nearly every member of the president's cabinet, is tasked with helping push gender equity and gender equality around the world.
As J.Klein put it, "all of that is not only what we want to be doing, what the President [Byden] has told us to do, but it is literally required of us now."—0--
Politics
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