Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defending human rights -- Rights in crisis / Ivan Šimonovic -- Reassessing solitary confinement / Anthony Graves -- Human trafficking and forced labor / Mohamed Matter -- Why we need to close Guantanamo / Elisa Massimino -- Ending gender inequality leads to a more perfect union / Bill Clinton -- UN resolution on human rights, sexual orientation, and gender identity / Ban Ki-moon -- Revisiting the success and continued challenges of the Vienna Declaration / Navi Pillay -- Expansion of war crimes reward program : a discussion / Stephen J. Rapp, Sarah Pray, Fatou Bensouda, Mark Quarterman, and Lisa Dougan -- Issues in health care and medicine -- Achieving an Aids-free generation / Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Let's move! / Michelle Obama -- The rising importance of family medicine / Margaret Chan -- The growing movement for universal health coverage / Jim Yong Kim -- The debate on gun control -- Pro-gun ownership and anti-gun violence / Mark E. Kelly -- The human and economic cost of gun violence / James Johnson -- Stricter gun control legislation: a waste of time / Orrin Hatch -- A father's appeal to ban assault weapons / Neil Heslin -- A more accountable gun culture / Alan Lowenthal -- The right to bear arms is an individual right / Chris Stewart -- One man with courage makes a majority / Joe Manchin -- Families are saying enough is enough / Kristen Gillibrand -- Immigration reform -- "How do you define 'American'?" / Jose Antonio Vargas -- Living under the threat of deportation / Benita Veliz -- The opportunity of immigration reform / Thomas J. Donohue -- Life in the shadows / Eric Holder -- Puerto Ricans are U.S citizens, but our citizenship is second class / Pedro R. Pierluisi -- Success on immigration reform runs through the border / Mitch McConnell -- Solving guest worker problem leads to immigration reform / Marco Rubio -- 12 million undocumented workers in the balance / Rand Paul -- Remaking business -- A rose by any other name . . . would probably violate the FTC Act: Shakespeare, the FTC, and advertising / Edith Ramirez -- Progress and Opportunity for the disabled / Seth D. Harris -- Making it : My address to the 2012 Women Entrepreneurs Festival / Joanne Wilson -- Capital formation from the investor's perspective / Luis Aguilar -- The power of socially and environmentally engaged companies / Bill Novelli -- Grassroots economics / William C. Dudley -- Immigrants and America's innovation economy / Luis Arbulu -- Leveraging private sector investment in the developing world / Jim Yong Kim.