It has become increasingly obvious that a future without poverty, hunger, AIDS and illiteracy depends on the empowerment of women, especially in developing regions where they produce most of the food but own almost none of the land, and many women lack even basic human rights. More than a decade after governments promised equality -- and faced with the 2015 deadline to lift at least half the world's poorest people out of misery -- women and men together are asking what must be done to make the voices of this silenced majority finally heard.