This week, the progress made by the world and its leaders in promoting women’s human rights during the past five years will be evaluated in the media capital of the world.
In his speech welcoming 15,000 women to the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that women and girls must have access to education and become the “policy-makers, lawyers and bureaucrats.”
Indigenous women from Alaska to Australia believe the language of official U.N. documents must be changed to include them specifically. Doing so, they believe, will permit them to enter debates with their tribal leaders and national governments.
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