Panel ‘Ethics and responsibility’. At the table, from left to right: Carolyn Merchant, Antoinette Fouque, Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Corinne Kumar. The Female Planet event had a busy schedule.

For eleven days, there were about two dozen panels that included such diverse subjects as biodiversity, biotechnology, food, agriculture, land reform, poverty, refugees, the role of networks for women's movements, health, education, population policy , spirituality, sexuality, external debt, militarism and other issues relevant to the environmental and developmen