{"id":3868,"date":"2009-03-13T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T05:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2009-03-13T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T05:10:40","slug":"saree-clad-ambiga-receives-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/03\/13\/saree-clad-ambiga-receives-award\/","title":{"rendered":"saree clad Ambiga receives award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3869\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3869\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3869\" title=\"ambiga-award-saree\" src=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ambiga-award-saree.jpg\" alt=\"Bar Council president receives award from Hilary Clinton\" width=\"370\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ambiga-award-saree.jpg 370w, https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ambiga-award-saree-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bar Council president receives award from Hilary Clinton<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/3\/13\/nation\/3472311&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">Photo from The Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This award has given us the opportunity, which we would not otherwise have had, to share our stories, our successes, our failures, to reach out across our borders and establish a base upon which we can build a meaningful network of support. \u201cThese stories must be told in all our countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Ambiga Sreenivasan&#8217;s speech during the award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Ambiga <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/03\/07\/ambiga-receives-inter%c2%adnational-women-of-courage-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">accepts her International Women of Courage 2009\u00a0 award <\/a>from ex-first lady Hilary Clinton while current US first lady Michelle Obama stands beside her. A proud moment indeed especially when she is wearing traditional costume. First time I&#8217;m seeing\u00a0 a Malaysian wearing saree in an international event.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clinton, in her speech, lauded Ambiga for pursuing judicial reform and good governance, standing up for religious tolerance, and resolutely advocating women\u2019s equality and their full political participation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On another note, I notice that other recipients of the award come from countries with human rights &#8220;issues&#8221; &#8211; Russia, Uzbekistan, Niger, Yemen, Guatemala, Iraq and Afghanistan. Looks like our country also lumped together with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo from The Star. This award has given us the opportunity, which we would not otherwise have had, to share our stories, our successes, our failures, to reach out across our borders and establish a base upon which we can build a meaningful network of support. \u201cThese stories must be told in all our countries. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-role-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}