Clinton ignores email scandal in remarks

Hillary Clinton did not address the mounting controversy over her use of private email during her latest public appearance at a women’s rights event convened by her foundation on Monday.

{mosads}Clinton instead touted the Clinton Foundation’s “No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project,” which advocates for women’s rights proposals, including paid maternity leave and expanding secondary education for girls.

The presumptive Democratic frontrunner for the White House in 2016 moderated the event alongside her daughter, Chelsea, and philanthropist Melinda Gates. Clinton took no political questions at the event.

Monday’s conference included female political heavy hitters like Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Nobel Prize-winning teenager Malala Yousafzai.

It’s Clinton’s second big public appearance since The New York Times report that she exclusively used a private email address to conduct official business while serving as secretary of State. That revelation has sparked vast criticism from Republican, and even some Democratic lawmakers, who are demanding that she fully releasing her emails.

Clinton’s staff turned over scores of official emails to the State Department and has asserted she followed all protocol. But some critics have questioned whether she turned over the entirety of her official emails since that process had no outside oversight.