Dignitaries from around the world gathered in Washington Sunday to launch an ambitious project aimed at ending global poverty among women.
来自世界各地的各界知名人士星期天聚集在美国首都华盛顿，共同启动一项雄心勃勃的计划，这项计划的目的在于结束世界范围内的妇女贫穷现象。
United Nations statistics show that women account for 70 percent of the world's poor; that women are owners of just one percent of the world's titled land; and that two-thirds of the world's illiterate people are women.
联合国的数据显示，妇女占世界贫穷人的70%，女性土地所有者仅拥有世界有登记土地的1%，而三分之二的文盲皆为女性。
Women's rights organizations exist in many countries, but now a new group, the Women, Faith, and Development Alliance, has emerged with a global outlook and more than $1 billion in financial commitments. The alliance aims to boost the economic status of women and fight for the changes that will make such improvements possible. Among tho