Fighting for Women's Rights In China - Sheryl WuDunn October 1, 2009

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/21/Empowering_Women_and_Girls_in_the_Developing_World

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn describes her journey from covering the violence in Tiananmen Square to actively fighting the oppression of women around the world. Her activism was sparked after hearing that "39,000 baby girls die each year before they get to the age of one, simply because they don't get access to healthcare."

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The New York Times Magazine recently dedicated an entire issue to the global concerns facing women and girls; award-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have been writing about these subjects for years and their book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide was published this week; the Campaign for Female Education (Camfed), a non-profit that fights poverty and AIDS in rural Africa by educating girls and investing in their economic independence, produced the award-winning movie "Where Water Meets the Sky"; and the Clinton Global Initiative is dedicating a panel to "Investing in Women & Girls" on September 23rd.

Join Janera for an intimate conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn, and Camfed executive director Ann Cotton. The two discuss the issues that women and girls face in the developing world and what we can do to improve their situation. - JANERA

Sheryl WuDunn is an author, lecturer and businesswoman who was the first Asian-American to win a Pulitzer Prize. A specialist in energy and alternative energy issues, she has also been a private wealth advisor with Goldman Sachs and was previously a journalist and editor for The New York Times.

She won the Pulitzer Prize with her husband Nicholas D. Kristof for her reporting from Beijing about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. WuDunn and Kristof were the first married couple ever to receive a Pulitzer for journalism.