What can we do to accelerate progress for women? Ahead of next week's International Women's Day, here are three priorities to consider for a global agenda.

Worldwide, marginalized groups (women, ethnic minorities, and the poor) often face high property insecurity, even when the property rights of foreign investors and domestic elites are secure. This is a pressing development challenge today on almost every continent.

These farmers are focused principally on building food sovereignty, the right of a people to define their own food and agricultural systems, premised on growing domestically for domestic consumption.

Some of leaders wondered whether the record attendance might have something to do with this year's focus on girls and women. As topic leaders for the Girls and Women track, such musings are music to our ears.

With only five years to go until the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the poverty reduction agenda has been set back. All is not lost, however. Reducing poverty on a massive scale is doable.

BEIJING — China's Cabinet suggested major changes Friday to the way land is seized for redevelopment in an attempt to calm a passionate issue th...