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Tina Brown rallies the world's most powerful women: Hillary Clinton, Queen Rania, Madeleine Albright, Meryl Streep…

By Melissa Whitworth   World  Last updated: March 13th, 2010



… and 300 other activists and leaders of women’s rights organisations. Yesterday marked the start of the first Women in the World summit, held at the Hudson Theatre in Manhattan’s midtown this weekend. It began with an introduction by Brown, who asked us to contemplate a group that included;

“Liberian powerhouse Leymah Gbowee, who led the 2003 sex strike to end her country’s civil war, and Kiran Bedi—the first female cop in India—who subdued the once-notorious Tihar Jail in Delhi. And then mix them in with news dynamos like ABC’s Diane Sawyer and Half the Sky co-author and former New York Times reporter Sheryl WuDunn, who will rub shoulders with big-time pragmatists like Bank of America’s Sallie Krawcheck and provocative Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, a withering critic of wasted foreign aid…”

Last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, introduced a reading of the play, SEVEN, directed by Julie Taymor and performed by Meryl Streep. “It’s not just that women’s rights are human rights, but women’s progress is human progress,” said Clinton.

Brown and her team at The Daily Beast have been working on this event for the last six months. “Empowering women is the key to peace, prosperity, and progress, not just here in the United States, but also in countries where women have endured repression for centuries,” says Brown.

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-- Edited by Sanders on Sunday 14th of March 2010 12:25:57 AM