Women Speak Up is a colorful collage of plenaries, workshops, interviews, spontaneous events and music from the Fourth United Nation's International Women's NGO (non-governmental organization) Forum that took place in Huairou and Beijing, China, August 30 through September 8, 1995, and was attended by 30,000 women from 189 countries. It captures the serious predominant themes of the Forum, but it also portrays the joyful celebration of women being together. The women articulate the story well and give us all reason for hope.