Today we can focus on the demanding global issues of our time, like the fact that only 30 percent of girls in the world are enrolled in secondary school and one in seven girls in developing countries are married off before the age of 15.

Healthy mothers have a powerful ripple effect. To save a mother is to save a family. And to save a family is to lay the foundation for stronger communities and more stable nations.

South Africa's minister of finance delivered heartfelt remarks, reminding us that there are a billion lives that need to benefit from Africa's transformation. Little did I realize how swiftly and significantly Minister Gordhan's words would touch me.

It will take a world -- a world of mothers, most likely -- rich ones, poor ones, all of them empowered, all speaking the truth -- to raise a universe of daughters and sons who know to treat each other with care and with respect.

For too long we have allowed millions of girls and women to suffer from female genital schistosomaisis. We may now be at the beginning of the end of this disease.

I am thrilled, ecstatic, and elated. This is a momentous step forward for women not just in Africa and Yemen but for women around the world.

When asked about her personal and professional inspirations, Gretchen Steidle Wallace names neither an A-list celebrity nor a political figure but, ra...

For now the world waits to see if African women will be given the opportunity they so richly deserve, the opportunity to be finally be heard.

The CIPSI and ChiAma L'Africa propose to launch an international campaign that results in the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize 2011 to African women as a whole -- a collective Nobel.

Can the solution to hunger be attributed to one sex over the other? Is it really that cut and dry? If so, how do we maximize our efforts to support the findings?

The resources we provide girls in Africa is directly related to our success in defeating HIV/AIDS. It's time to consider how we can empower them to defeat the scourge of their population.