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How poor women can be given the power to earn their own living as entrepreneurs. Lesley Curwen talks to President Obama's Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, Melanne Verveer about how women can be helped to raise themselves out of poverty.

And Andrea Jung, chief executive of the cosmetics empire Avon, claims her direct-selling business is the biggest 'micro-lender' to women in the world.

Plus, Lesley Curwen talks to two women involved in a campaign across East Africa to get women workers into trade unions. One result of their work - six thousand female farm workers have been recruited into unions in Tanzania. The two are Phillipina Moshe of the Tanzania Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union, and Flavia Amoding of the Ugandan Workers' Education Association.