GA 23rd Special Session 'Women 2000' Follows Up on 1995 Beijing Conference

Hillary Rodham Clinton (at podium), First Lady of the United States, speaks on the subject of microcredit, during a panel discussion being held as part of the twenty-third special session the General Assembly, meeting on the theme: ""Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century"". Also pictured (left to right) are: Chief Bisi Oguleye; Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank, Bangladesh; Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM); Ela Bhatt, Founder of Self-Employed Women' Association, India; and Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).