Women's Rights and Personal Security

We sat down this week with Asia Foundation Trustee Melanne Verveer, director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, and the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women's issues from 2009 to 2013. We asked her how far women had come in Asia, and how far they had yet to go.

At the opening of the 59th Commission on the Status of Women at UN Headquarters on March 9, world leaders issued a political declaration calling for gender equality by 2030. In Asia editor Alma Freeman spoke with Barbara Rodriguez, The Asia Foundation's assistant director for women's empowerment programs, and Kate Bollinger...