UN Special #12: Rangina Hamidi Interview

Rangina Hamidi, the Minister of Education in Afghanistan, talks to Sarah Brown about growing up as a child refugee in Pakistan.

She says she was faced with threats of acid attacks just because she went to school.

Her parents decided to flee to America to enable her and her sister to have an education.  

She says the struggles she faced as a child made her determined to fight against the injustices in the world.  

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