Last week, sitting alongside United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the Princess of Thailand, twenty-eight year-old Lebanese activist Ghida Anani delivered a fiery, unblinking address on fighting violence against women . Here’s what we talked about afterward. Anani is a co-founder of Kafa , an advocacy and support group focusing on violence against women that receives funding from the UN Trust Fund. (Kafa means “enough”). She got involved in the issue eight years ago, she told me, “because I felt that the issue of women’s rights – especially when it comes to violence against women – is the core of development in any country.” Anani has estimated that “as many as three-quarters of…
