ABSTRACT
This issue of Journal of Global Ethics draws together a thematic collection on the paired topics
of human vulnerability and human empowerment. A selection of papers has been developed fol-
lowing presentations at “Gender Justice and Development: Local and Global,” a conference of
the International Development Ethics Association, hosted at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylva-
nia, USA, in June 2011. Two papers that also serve to highlight these themes have been selected
from among those received by the journal, and a brief essay that develops them within a recent
political context completes the issue.
