A panoply of events, speakers and burning topics. Voices: All-woman Chinese orchestra; Helvi Sipila of Finland; Hillary Clinton; youth from Western Sahara; Kamla Bhasin of India; Shirley Mae Springer Staten (singing); Julie Drizin, interviewing disability rights protesters in Huairou (unnamed demonstrator;  Sual deMarco [sp] from Nicaragua; Florence Lusaka, Uganda; Tasneem Sadik, Bangladesh; Robin Foster, Boston): Nafisa Hoodbhoy from Pakistan on the nuclear weapons debate, interviewed by Kimberly Frazier-Booth; Judy Rebick, former President of NAC (National Action Committee on the Status of Women, in Canada); Cheryl Carolus from South Africa; Gertrude Mongella, Secretary-General of the conference.

Credits: Reporters: Frieda Werden, Kimberly Frazier-Booth, Julie Drizin. Mongella recording courtesy of KKFI-FM in Kansas City. Music clips recorded live at the events.
Photo (attached): Shirley Mae Springer Staten [not Shelton] calms the crowd that is waiting for Hillary Clinton to arrive. Credit: Jo Freeman