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  • 1About me
    • 1Preface
    • 2About
    • 4Acknowledgements
    • 5Why I Joined the UN
    • 6The Koreans Are Coming
    • 7Our Family’s Security Blanket
    • 8Interview: Escape from Pyongyang
  • 1Navigating the Boundaries of Identities
    • 1Introduction
    • 2Mothers and Sons
    • 3Competing on a Level Playing Field
    • 4The Big Bindi Controversy
    • 5Hairy tales and Rebellious Girls
    • 6The Nurturing Instinct
    • 7What Men Can Do as Feminists
    • 8Racism is Thin Skinned
    • 9Our Bodies, Our Surgically Improved Selves
    • 10A Child of the Twenty-First Century
    • 11Feminism and Faith
    • 12How to Peel an Onion Without Crying
  • 2Violence Against Women
    • 1Introduction
    • 2Singing for the Dead
    • 3Breaking the Silence on Women’s Human Rights
    • 4What Women Have in Common with Camels
    • 5What's Optional about the Optional Protocol?
    • 6Child Prostitutes
    • 7The Truth About Gender-based Violence
    • 8Children Under Fire
    • 9Female Genital Mutilation - Who Should Lead the Way?
    • 10Making Governments Accountable for Sexual Violence
    • 11Rape as a War Crime
    • 12Women Light the Way for Human Rights
  • 3Finding the Earth's Balance
    • 1Introduction
    • 2Mossi Women
    • 3It’s About My Body, Dummy
    • 4Frogs, Freaks and the Precautionary Principle
    • 5The Earth Charter Sings
    • 6When Phoenix Meets Dragon
    • 7Prevention Is the Best Medicine
    • 8Let’s Change Consumer Behavior - You First
    • 9Priming the Pump in the Maldives
    • 10Lessons from a Korean Village About Trees
    • 11Energy and the Law of Evolutionary Potential
    • 12Uncommon Ground
  • 4Claiming the Right To Health
    • 1Introduction
    • 2Discrimination Even Before Birth
    • 3When Boys Will Not Be Boys
    • 4A Dog’s Life
    • 5Rural Women as ‘Medical Women'
    • 6The Victims: It’s Time to Stop Blaming Them For AIDS
    • 7A Gift from a Child with Leprosy
    • 8When Medicine Is Not Enough
    • 9The Trials of Being a Traditional Healer
    • 10How Secondhand Smoke Disappeared from the UN
    • 11Good for Me, but Not for Thee
    • 12My “Untouchable” Indian doctor
    • 13A Health Quiz
  • 6Economic Empowerment
    • 1Introduction
    • 2The Women and Economic Power Quiz
    • 3This is the Hand That Built
    • 4Four Wishes for Economists
    • 5Exploiting our Children
    • 6What do Rural Women Really Want?
    • 7Shoes and Economic Miracles
    • 8Lessons from a Swiss Village
    • 9Packing the UN for Davos
    • 10A beginner's Poverty Index
    • 11The Myth of the Hunter
    • 12Economic Man Dressed in Women’s Clothes
    • 13Let Them Eat Chocolate
    • 14Follow the Money
    • 15Education – an Enduring Gift
    • 16In a Chinese Kitchen, it's Still a Man's World
  • 7Collective Voices
    • 1Introduction
    • 2NGO Forum on Women 1995 - How Was It Organized?
    • 3Return to Huairou
    • 4Take Your Daughter to Vote
    • 5Advice for a Worried Youth Leader
    • 6New Phoenix Rises
    • 7From Victims to Visionaries
    • 8Is Patriarchy Fragile?
    • 9Winners of the Campaign for Change
    • 10If You Don’t Vote, We Will
    • 11Where are the Men?
    • 12What the UN Fourth World Conference on Women Achieved
    • 13UN Airlines to the Future
    • 14The Ghost of Conferences Past
    • 15The Commission on the Status of Women
  • 8Circle of Women: Portraits
    • 1Introduction
    • 2Mama Mongella
    • 3Noeleen Heyzer
    • 4Mun Ok-Sun
    • 5Patricia Licuanan
    • 6The Owl
    • 7Alda Facio
    • 8Charlotte Bunch
  • 9Alphabet Soup
    • 1List of Acronyms
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