During the 1999 Commission on the Status of Women, Bani Dugal Gujral (center), director of the Bahá’í International Community’s Office for the Advancement of Women, chaired an NGO presentation on “Building National Machinery for the Advancement of Women: The Role of Civil Society.” At left is Margareta Winberg, the Swedish Minister for Gender Equality. At right is Suzanne Kindervatter of InterAction, a coalition of some 160 NGOs in the USA.