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Online Dialogue on
Women and Health
Follow-up to the Beijing Conference on Women

31 August - 21 September

• About the online
  dialogue
  
• Topics for discussion
  
• Meet the moderator
  
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• Moderator's highlights

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• Read the discussion papers

Meet the Moderator

Dr. Soon-Young Yoon is an activist/anthropologist. She is currently a research associate of the Graduate Center, Department of Anthropology at the City University of New York and a columnist for the Earth Times newspaper.

In 1995, she was one of the organizers of the NGO Forum on Women at the Beijing women's conference. She has worked for various Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ agencies such as Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF and the World Health Organization as regional advisor on social science and health issues. Her academic work includes research and teaching as a Fulbright scholar at Ewha Woman's university in Korea where she helped to establish a women's studies program.

A Korean-American, she considers herself a "third generation" feminist. She says, "the first feminist was my grandfather who believed in equal inheritance and education for his daughters."