In Qatar, Michelle Obama delivers pointed message on women’s rights
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CNN
First lady Michelle Obama told a conference in Qatar Wednesday that it's time to confront ingrained cultural oppression of women, insisting that men also take up the cause of promoting girls' education in their societies.
"We cannot address our girls' education crisis until we address the cultural norms and practices that devalue women's intelligence, that silence their voices, that limit their ambitions," Obama said at an international education conference held in Doha, the capital of the Arab Gulf nation.
Obama was speaking midway through a five-day trip to the region promoting her "
