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Table of Contents

I.

Cover

II.

Timeline

III.

Acknowledgements

IV.

About me

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Why I Joined the UN

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The Koreans Are Coming

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Our Family’s Security Blanket

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INTERVIEW: Escape from Pyongyan

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Why did you leave your hometown of Pyongyang?

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What do you remember about leaving?

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Many refugees from North Korea left empty-handed. How did your family survive?

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What about your mother?

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How did you travel?

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How do you think this childhood experience influenced you?

V.

Navigating the Boundaries of Identities

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Introduction

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Mothers and Sons

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Competing on a Level Playing Field

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Big Bindi

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Hairy Tales and Rebellious Girls

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The Nurturing Instinct

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What Men Can Do as Feminists

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Racism is Thin Skinned

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Our Bodies, Our Surgically Improved Selves

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A Child of the Twenty-First Century

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Feminism and Faith

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How to Peel and Onion Without Crying

VI.

Violence Against Women

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Introduction

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Singing for the Dead

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Breaking the Silence on Women’s Human Rights

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What Women Have in Common with Camels

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What's Optional About the Optional Protocol?

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Child Prostitutes

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The Truth About Gender-based Violence

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Children Under Fire

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Female Genital Mutilation -- Who Should Lead the Way?

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Making Governments Accountable for Sexual Violence

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Rape As a War Crime

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Women Light the Way for Human Rights

VII.

Finding the Earth’s Balance

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Introduction

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Mossi Women

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It’s About My Body, Dummy

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Frogs, Freaks and the Precautionary Principle

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The Earth Charter Sings

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When Phoenix Meets Dragon

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Prevention is the Best Medicine

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Let’s Change Consumer Behaviour. You First.

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Priming the Pump in the Maldives

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Lessons from a Korean Village About Trees

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Energy and the Law of Evolutionary Potential

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Uncommon Ground

VIII.

Claiming the Right to Health

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Introduction

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Discrimination Before Birth

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When Boys Will Not Be Boys

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A Dog’s Life

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Rural Women as Medical Women

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It Is Time To Stop Blaming AIDS Victims

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A Gift from a Child with Leprosy

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When Medicine Is Not Enough

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The Trials of Being a Traditional Healer

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How Secondhand Smoke Disappeared from the UN

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Good for Me, But Not for Thee

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My “Untouchable” Indian Doctor

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A Health Quiz

IX.

Economic Empowerment

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Introduction

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The Women and Economic Power Quiz

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This is the Hand That Built

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Four Wishes for Economists

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Exploiting our Children

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What do Rural Women Really Want?

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Shoes and Economic Miracles

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Lessons from a Swiss Village

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Packing the UN for Davos

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A Beginner's Poverty Index

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The Myth of the Hunter

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Economic Man Dressed in Women’s Clothes

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Let Them Eat Chocolate

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Follow the Money

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Education: An Enduring Gift

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In a Chinese Kitchen, It's Still a Man's World

X.

Collective Voices

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Introduction

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NGO Forum on Women 1995 - How was it Organized?

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Return to Huairou

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Take Your Daughter To Vote

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Advice for a Worried Youth Leader

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A New Phoenix

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From Victims to Visionaries

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Is Patriarchy Fragile?

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Winners of the Campaign for Change

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If You Don’t Vote, We Will

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Where are the Men?

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What the UN Fourth World Conference on Women Achieved

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UN Airlines to the Future

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The Ghost of Conferences Past

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The Commission on the Status of Women

XI.

The Circle of Women

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Introduction

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Mama Mongella

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Noeleen Heyzer

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Ok Sun Mun

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Patricia Licuanan

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The Owl

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Alda Facio

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Charlotte Bunch

Imprint

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