Secretary Rice announces recipients of the 2nd annual International Women of Courage awards, in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the State Department 2008. (l-r) Andrea Bottner, senior coordinator, Office of International Women's Issues; Virisila Buadromo of Fiji; Valdete Idrizi of Kosovo; Farhiyo Farah Ibrahim of Somalia; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Dr. Begum Jan of Pakistan (behind Secretary Rice); Suraya Pakzad of Afghanistan; Nibal Thawabteh of Palestine (behind Pakzad); Cynthia Bendlin of Paraguay; and Dr. Eaman Al-Gobory of Iraq. The individual in blue on the far right is an unidentified staff member.