Ethics, Poverty Take Center Stage at Davos
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At the 2005 World Economic Forum, global poverty and disease pushed
trade and America off the front burner
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Michael Meyer
Newsweek
Updated: 1:18 p.m. ET Jan. 29, 2005
Jan. 29 - One of the more dramatic moments of Davos 2005 featured a
spikey-haired young woman, rising from a sea of business suits and
leveling a finger at Masoumeh Ebtekar, the vice president of the
Islamic Republic of Iran. "Come clean," she shouted, her voice
shaking with indignation. "You speak of democracy and human rights,
yet women are being stoned!"
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