Voices of reason
BBC's 100 Women list for 2014 includes two with strong Hong Kong connections: a Pakistani blogger and an 18-year-old citizen journalist
The media plays a vital role in promoting gender equality, particularly in how women and men are depicted. That is the drive behind the BBC's 100 Women project - a series of features, an annual conference and activities looking at issues that women face today and what they have achieved.
The annual project was launched last year, partly because of the horrific gang rape and torture of a student on a New Delhi bus in 2012.
The idea is to identify women from around the world and give them a meeting place to discuss issues that affect them, says Liliane Landor, the BBC World Service's controller of languages who looks after the project.
"This year the criteria focus on the power of women - those who have changed the world around them and inspired others to do the same," she says.
The 2014 list announced a couple of weeks ago includes more scientists and women working in the arts, more than a fifth of whom were under the age of 25.
Some made headlines, such as Obiageli Ezekwesili, a leader of the Bring Back Our Girls group, which is campaigning for the release of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists, and Conchita Wurst, the cross-dressing Austrian singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in May.
Of the 100 women named this year, two have a connection with the city. Sana Saleem is a Pakistani activist whose work now focuses on Hong Kong, and Irene Li is a student who has been documenting the pro-democracy umbrella movement in recent weeks.