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Namju Cho: Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST).


Namju Cho is a rising star who has devoted her young career and volunteer work to the advancement A gift of money or property made by a person while alive to his or her child or other legally recognized heir, the value of which the person intends to be deducted from the child's or heir's eventual share in the estate after the giver's death.  and protection of women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns.

The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and
. After graduating from Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College


Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
 in 2002, Namju began her work at the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs in the Division for the Advancement of Women where she was responsible for making recommendations on issues concerning gender policies to the Unit Chief and the Special Advisor to the U.N. Secretary General.

Currently, Namju is protecting women's rights through her work at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery slavery, institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services.  & Trafficking (CAST). CAST is an organization devoted to assisting persons trafficked for the purpose of forced labor and slavery-like practices and to ending all instances of such human rights violations. Namju will undoubtedly continue to impact the future of women's rights locally and internationally.
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Date:May 8, 2006
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