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June 5, 2000, Monday, AM cycle
SECTION: Business News; International News
LENGTH: 658 words.
HEADLINE: U.N: chief, Hillary Clinton, and activists demand women's equality
BYLINE: By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer .
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From all comers of the globe, high-ranking ministers and ordinary women joined the U.N.
secretary-general and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday to demand that equality of the
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sexes become a reality at the start of the 21st century.
Five years after the biggest global gathering of women in history adopted an ambitious platform to
achieve women's equality, nearly 180 nations met at a special General Assembly session to review
progress. The initial report card found this answer: too little.
Speaker after speaker declared that the achievements since the 1995 Beijing conference are far
outweighed by the remaining inequalities and persistent discrimination against women. "Much remains
to be done," said Secretary-9"eneral Kofi Annan.
"We come here because for all of the progress we can point to our work is far from done," echoed the
first lady, now a candidate for U.S. Senate from New York. "When girls are doused with gasoline, set
on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are too small and when 'honor killings'
continue to be tolerated, our work is far from done."
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As they did in Beijing, thousands of women from grass-roots organizations around the world came to
New York to lobby the delegates. Their cololful opening ceremony across the street from U.N.
headquarters included speeches by Annan, Queen Noor of Jordan and U.N. High Commissioner for
Human Rights Mary Robinson and entertainment by' singer Judy Collins:
Japanese women, who are running a workshop to increase women's participation in politics, wore sas.hes
reading "Don't be a Nobody." Members of the Indonesian Women's Forum for Democracy, wearing I
T-shirts saying "Democracy is Not Enough, We Need Gender Justice," were ~elling textiles and jewel!)'
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The conference is supposed to come up with innovative, practical ways to accelerate implem~ntation of
the 150-page plan of action adopted in Beijing.
It called on governments to provide equal education and employment, demanded that business and
government put women in top decision-making posts, and stated for the first time in a U.N. document
that women have the right to decide freely all matters related to their sexuality and childbearing.
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Beijin;g because of opposition from the Vatican and a few Islamic countries including Algeria, Iran,
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"There must be no going back on the commitments," Robinson said. "The whole platform of action
. must not only be ~aintained but must be reinvigorated and given practical impetus around the world.'\
At Beijing, Clinton took center stage, attacking China's human rights record and demanding that women
become equal partners in building a better world - a demand she echoed at a panel on one of the issueS
she promot~d in 1995, small loans to help poor wo~en e~cape poverty:
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"Let us not JUSt mark, but celebrate, a new century m which women's nghts are once and for all treated
as human rights, fully respected in every country in the world," she said.
·Her reception on Monday was overwhelming, just as it was in Beijing, which ranks among her fmest
hours on th"e international stage as first lady. At the start, she was cheered. At the end, the audience
stood up spontaneously, started singing the American civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome," and .
then mobbed her.
In his speech, Annan cited progress in women's health and education, in making violence against
women illegal, and above all in having more countries understand "that women's equality is a
prerequisite for development.'.'
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But he also reported that the gap between the salaries of men and women is widening, that women
continue to be denied inheritance rights, that violence against women is increasing despite legislation
and that "a worldwide plague" of trafficking of women and children has erupted.
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June 5, 2000, Monday, BC cycle
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HEADLINE: Hillary Clinton says abuses remain despite economic progress for women ·
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Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday saluted the success of a loan program that "transforms lives" oy .
turning millions of poor women around the world into entrepreneurs.
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"When girls are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries ¥e
too small ... our work is far from done," Clinton said in remarks that sometimes echoed word for word
her 1995 speech in China. "When millions of girls are still kept out of school, often by their own · I
families, our work is far from done. When babies are still denied food, drowned and abandoned, simply
because they are girls, our work is far from done."
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Clinton's speech to the UN Conference on Women 2000 was frequently interrupted by applause from
the standing-room-only crowd of 1,500.
The first lady's speech in Beijing - which included the line "Women's rights are human rights and
human rights are \Vomen's rights" - is considered one of the highlights of her career. She stunned her
hosts with a fierce condemnation of infanticide and other abuses at a time when the u:s. goveniment
was downplaying criticism of Chinese human rights violations.
"She has been a great advocate and a great role model and she was there with you in Beijing," said UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday.
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The Beijing conference also launched a decade-long effort to bring microcredit - small cash loans
usually issued by not-for-profit institutions or government agencies- to 100 million of the world's
poorest families.
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The New York meeting was designed to assess "what we have achieved, what more we need to do and.
how we go forward," Annan said. "The revolution is not over."
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Clinton said that despite continuing abuses, there has also been progress - such as laws passed in various
countries raising the legal age for marriage, banning female genital mutilation, ·criminalizing domestid
violence and recognizing rape as a war crime.
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Clinton also said that microcredit now reaches 20 million people, the majority of them women who
open up small businesses like restaurants, bakeries and sewing shops. "I've met so many of these women
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whose lives were transformed," she said.
She gave as an example a woman in Chile who used her loan to buy a sewing machine. "The sewing
machine meant so much to her she couldn't stop kissing it," Clinton said.
Microcredit programs also exist in the United States. Beulah Williams of Olney, Md., a single mother
and grandmother, said she didn't qualify for a commercial bank loan but got a $2,000 microcredit loan
an~ opened a clothing business. "I'm empowered," she said.
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Clinton recalled that when she met with women in India who got microcredit loans, they serenaded her
with "We Shall Overcome," an anthem ofthe U.S. civil rights movement.
Those whci heard Clinton on Monday were similarly moved. After she finisheq speaking, hundreds of
women spontaneously began singing "We Shall Overcome," ,an4 the first lady joined in.
Afterwards, many women said they wished Clinton success in her own historic quest to run for the U.S.
Senate. She is the first U.S. president's wife to run for office.
"She's fighting for us women and we have to support her," said JF.adiatou Osseni of Benin. "Please let
her go to the Senate."
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"Every woman can really understand what Mrs. Clinton is saying," said Mazidah Zakaria of Malaysia.
"She could be the first woman president of the United States."
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HEADLINE: UN gender equality conference opens
BYLINE: By WILLIAM M. REILLY
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U.N. Secretary-General KofiAnnan Monday opened a specialisession of the General Assembly,
focusing on equality for women, saying education enables women to play a deserved role in the global
economy.
U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton headlined the U.N. Development Fund for Women
(UNIFEM) "Women's Economic Status" panel, touching off an impromptu and moving chorus of the
civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" from the hundreds attending ...
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Clinton set aside several hours from her New York State campaign for a U.S. Senate seat to speak on
micro-credit and participate on the panel in the packed basemen~ conference room.
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Some 188 nations and 1,250 non-governmental organizations are represented at the 23rd Special
Session, a week of meetings, panels and discussion groups both on the U.N. main campus and in U.N.
and non-U.N. buildings on the East Side of Manhattan. There was no immediate tally of the number of
people attending, most of whom are women.
The object is to review progress on women's issues since the Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing, China five years ago and is officially, "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and
Peace for the 21st Century." Member States and NGOs are reviewing and appraising the progress made
towards implementing the Platform for Action adopted at the B~ijing summit. So, the nickname is
"Beijing +5."
Annan said in his opening remarks there had beeri progress, but "above all, more countries have
understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development."
Much remains to be done, he said, adding that the remaining challenges could be met only if women
were enabled to build on the best "this new world" has to offer.
"That means, above all, that women must be educated and enabled to play their part in the global ·
economy," he said. "Education, in other words is both the entry point into the global economy and the
best .defense against its pitfalls."
The secretary-general was among the guests at an NGO Host Committee ceremony in nearby Dag
Hammarskjld Plaza under gray skies. The gathering also featured Queen Noor of Jordan, U.S. Lt. Gen.
Claudia Kennedy and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke.
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· Annan escorted Clinton to the dais of the downstairs economic session to chee~ and rousing applause.
"Tiiis is exciting, Hillary. You are the only one who can bring such energy to the United Nations," saih
Annan, who introduced her as "a great advocate and role model" who in Beijing five years earlier
"moved from government to the NGO side and really pulled everyone together."
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Clinton acknowledged progress in her remarks: "Women's rights are human rights and Human rights are
Women's rights," she said. "No country today will get ahead if half of its citizens are left behind."
"Women.have to continue "to stand out and speak up," Clinton said.
'~Globalization should not mean marginalization." It was after her prepared remarks the attendees stooo
up and sang, clapping hands in unison.
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and micro-financing. The panel was but one of several being held on various women related topics ...
· The Beijing platform defmed a set of ~trategic objectives and spelled out actions for governments and
NGOs and the private sector to take by 2000 to remove obstacles to the advancement of women. ,
Twelve critical areas identified in the document and now being reviewed were women and poverty,
education and training of women, women and health, violence against women, women and armed·
conflict, women and the economy, women in'power and decision making, institutional mechanisms for
the advancement of women, human rights of women, women and the media, women and the
environment and the girl child.
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.An official at the U.S. mission to the United Nations confirmed to United Press International half of an
Iranian delegation of 14 NGOs refused to be fingerprinted at John F. Kennedy International Airport b~ ,
the Immigration and Naturalization Service as is the standard procedure for all non-diplomats arriving J
from Iran, and a few other countries, unless their capital requests: a waiver. The official said a waiver
was not requested by Tehran ~d further inquiries were directed to the State Department in Washington.
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SHOW: WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (6:30PM ET)
. June 5, 2000, Monday
TYPE: Profile
LENGTH: 505 words.
HEADLINE: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE REVIEWS PROGRESS AND
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ANCHORS: PETER JENNINGS
REPORTERS: JACKIE JUDD
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PETER JENNINGS, anchor:
Here in New York today, one of the world's truly important conferences has begun. The International
Women's Conference. There are women from 187 countries, all of them interested in how women are
doing and are they doing any better than the last women's conference in China, five years ago. ABC's
. Jackie Judd reports tonight from the United Nations ..
Offscreen Voice: Welcome, to the opening ceremony.
JACKIE JUDD reportfug:
(VO) They came to take stock. Many women at the UN today established the goals at the Beijing
conference five years ago.
Ms. IDLLARY CLINTON: We can redeem the promises of Befjing for our daughters and our
granddaughters.
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JUDD: (VO) Those promises were wildly ambitious: eliminate violence~ job discrimination, illiteracy
and much more. Elementary education is counted as a success story, because more young girls than ever
now attend school. Nigeria actually prohibits girls from leaving school.
Ms: MARIO BELLO (Nigeria): They will have the ability to interact with more people, to be able to
partake in decision making.
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poorest women have now received ~icrolo~s, loa.tis as. s~all as$ 200.
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are the difference between being able to start a business and not being able to do it at all. ·
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JUDD: (VO) But there have been significant failures. Five years ago, women paid very little attention to
the ravaging effects of AIDS. Since then, more African women than men have become HIV infected.
Ms. MPULE KWELEGOBE (Botswana): Perhaps five years ago, we thought that it was something
under control or perhaps we thought it was not something that was going to blow up as much as it did
now.
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JUDD: (VO) An even greater failure, women here say, is that the number of women elected to natiomil
office has barely budged. It is not even dose to the goal of 30 perc~nt.
Ms. JUNE ZEITLAND (Women & Environmental Development Organization): If women are always
on the outside banging the door to have their issues addressed, it's less likely these needs will be
addressed by those in: power.
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JUDD: Despite the-failures, these women believe the simple act of meeting like this gives them the
power to bang on the door arid insist on changes. Jackie Judd, ABC News, the United Nations.
JENNINGS: Later in the broadcast and later in the week, we'll take A CLOSER LOOK at some of the
other women's issues. Tonight honor killing and how a woman's employer could protect her from
domestic violence.
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HEADLINE: UN women's conference pins hopes on education, access to credits
BYLINE: Robert Holloway
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, June 5
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· UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and US First Lady Hillary Clinton set the tone Monday for a
week-long conference on women, emphasising credits for small businesses and education as weapons
against inequality.
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Annan drew attention to threats to women's development includiP.g AIDS, violence, and traffick~g in
women and children, which have increased since the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in
. Beijing in 1995.
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He said the education of girls and women was as important a weapon against these evils as it was
against poverty and economic inequality.
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Both he and Clinton also stressed gains made since Bejing, which the First Lady described as "one of
the most moving and meaningful experiences of my life".
That conference identified 12 priority areas for action which will be assessed here this week.
A total of 205 speakers were due to take the floor in plenary sess~on, including the representatives of
179 governments, the heads of UN agencies and a few of the 1,200 non-governmental organisations
taking part in numerous meetings outside the UN General Assembly hall.
"Beijing was important because women broke centuries of silence and spoke out on issues that matter
most to us, our families and our societies," Clinton told one such meeting.
Addressing members of the microcredit summit campaign, she recalled that since Beijing, governments
had passed laws to raise the legal age for marriage, ban female genital mutilation and outlaw domestic
violence.
"Rape is now recognised as a crime by international war tribunals, while more women are getting
microcredit, running their own businesses· and owning property ih their own names," she said.
More than 20 of the 31 delegates due to address the first plenary session were women with ministerial
rank, and Annan said the increasing number of women decision-makers was another sign of progress.
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He also pointed to the worldwide mobilisation against so-called ''honour killings," in which women are
killed by family members, to new health strategies and to the greater availability and use of family
planning.
Above all, he said, "more countries have understood that women~s equality is a prerequisite for
development."
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Educated girls were better informed how to protect therruielves against lllV-infection; and less likely to
turn to prostitution because of the lack of job prospects, he said.
"AIDS is taking a devastating toll on women and girls," Annan said.
In the worst-hit cities of southern Africa 40 percent of pregnant women were IllY-positive, more than
one child in ten had lost its mother to AIDS, and grandmothers and young girls had to care for orphans
or sick relatives, he said.
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"We need every government, every NGO, every business, tojoin an international crusade"
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She also called for action to protect women and children from trafficking and to prosecute those who
profited from it.
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million of the world's poorest families by 2005.
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HEADLINE: Microcredit now reaches 13.8 million people, women's conference hears
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, June 5
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· Almost 14 million of the world's poorest people, three-quarters: ofthem women, have access to
microcredit, delegates to a United Nations conference on'women heard Monday.
"Although it is called microcredit, this is a macro idea with vast potential," US First Lady Hillary
Cliriton told the microcredit summit campaign.
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The campaign was meeting on the sidelines of the UN conference, which was· called to review progress
made since the Fourth World Conference on Women,.held in ·Beijing in 1995.
Clinton was a member of a panel which launched the idea at Beijing of bringing microcredit to 100
million of the world's poorest families by 2005.
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The campaign reported that a survey of 1,065 microcredit institutions had found that 13.8 million
people had access to microcredit by December 31, 1999, compared with about six million two years
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Of these, 10.3 million were women, it said.
"Whether we are talking about a rural area in South Asia or an inher city in the United States, .
microcredit is an invaluable tool in alleviating poverty, promoting self-sufficiency and stimulating
economic activity in some of the world's most destitute and disadvantaged communities," Clin~on said.
She recalled meeting a seamstress in Chile who had used a small loan from a microcredit bank to buy a
high-speed sewing machine.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton took time off from state politics today to come back to feminism and the
United Nations, where her audience has always been friendly, to'deliver a spirited speech on women's
rights.
Mrs. Clinton was not the main event. She spoke ·at one of many meetings on the margins of a weeklong
special General Assembly session to assess the progress of women worldwide, five years after a
groundbreaking conference in Beijing.
She is not part of the American delegation, .as she was then. But the difference was lost on her audienc~
of women from every continent, who greeted her with warmth and enthusiasm. They sang, clapped ancl
grasped for her hand as they stormed the podium-- a display that no other speaker is likely to enjoy.
More than 10,000 women, and some men, from more than 180 ·countries are in New York for the
session and dozens of related events.
Gita Sen, adevelopment expert from India, said that Mrs. Clinton struck a responsive cord because of
her unambiguous commitment to women's rights everywhere, a message many people gathered here say
they want to hear more often from Americans, who seem to many to have withdrawn from the
organization and the world in recent years.
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"We ar~ comlnitted to makin.g this jcnil"D.ey together, •i Mrs. Clint~n told a cheering audience invited by. ·
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Her pledge came on a day when a group of independent organizations issued a call for help to forestall
efforts they say the Vatican and some conserv~tive Islamic and Catholic countries are making to reverse
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gains achieved five years ago at the Fourth International Conference on Women. At that meeting, a
watershed event that brought grass-roots women's groups and governments together to form networks
that continue to operate, most nations pledged to promote women's rights in areas as diverse as
education, family planning and sexual relationships. ·
Richard C. Holbrooke, the United States ambassador to the United Nations; said Mrs. Clinton had laid.
out the administration's position forcefully. "It was Hillary saying, do not erode the gains of Beijing,"
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Ms. Sen, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore and the leader of an
· organization for women from developing nations, said in an interview that this conference -- like the
one in Beijing --was in danger of sinking into arid debate over definitions and intentions. This meeting
is intended to look for ways to move ahead, Iiot to reopen debate; on the issues, she said.
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Women no longer want to debate the meaning of "family" or paise what "access to health care" means
in relation to abortion, said Joana Foster, a Zimbabwean who is a leader of Women in Law and ·
Development in Africa. "Africans think debates over nuances and language are a waste of time."
Ms. Foster represents a new generation of women in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia
who have worked hard through international conferences for improvements in women's rights and are
determined to maintain the momentum. She said that international agreements like the Beijing
"platform for action" have real effects in developing countries. ·
"Beijing was a catalyst for a whole lot of things," she said. "People are getting into Parliament. Look at
somewhere like Namibia, which now has 44 .percent women in the local government system. In South
Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Ghana people are now fighting for affirmative action to become part and
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"F.G.M. was a big thing in Beijing for all of us," Ms. Foster said, using shorthand for the term female·
genital mutilation, or the ritual cutting of girls' genitals. "A lot of countries have passed laws against it.
There is that sort of progress going on. For us, we don't want a document that future governments can
use to stop the progress."
In Beijing five years ago, nations agreed to end laws that discriminate against women and to open more
education to girls. They also called for closing income gaps betWeen women and men. .
Secretary General Kofi Annan opened the formal assembly session by reminding his audience of goals .
still to be met. "Most countries have yet to legislate in favor ofwomen's rights to own land," he said.
"Violence against women is still increasing -- both in the home a:nd in the newer types of armed conflict
which target civilian populations."
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HEADLINE: HILL STANDS UP FOR WOMEN IN SPEECH AT U.N.
BYLINE: Gregg Birnbaum
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Hillary Rodham Clinton used a speech at the United Nations yesterday to demand better treatment
for women around the world - but her message won't be lost on voters closer t~ home in New York.
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Clinton's appearance at a U.N. women's conference marked the fifth anniversary of a sitJ:lilar gathering
in Beijing..: where the first lady sparked an uproar by slamming her Chinese hosts for .forced abortions
and mass sterilization. ·
Clinton's campaign recently has seized on her 1995 Beijing bombshell - which fans consider her finest
hour - to portray the first lady as a courageous. fighter who stands up for what she thinks is right.
That speech is showcased in "Hillary" - a lavishly produced 18-minute video shown at her campaign
kickoff in February and distributed to supporters.
Clinton's U.N. visit was deemed an official White House event, although the high-profile appearance
clearly had implications for her Senate race ..
Clinton was introduced by U.N ..Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who had the audience laughing when he
. joked that the first lady was very busy these days- a reference to her candidacy.
In her 30-minute address to about 500 women from dozens of co~tries, Clinton recalled her Beijing
speech- "Our shot was heard around the world," she said- and added that women have made great
strides over the past five years.
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·But Clinton said "honor" killings, violence against women, and the denial of voting rights.still are
·widespread, citing a particular problem of an estimated l million1women sold into slavery each year.
Clinton later attended a $2.5 million mega-fund-raiser by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee to celebrate the 70th birthday of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem).
Some of the "soft money" could be spent to help Clinton's battle GoP contender Rick Lazio.
Lazio did his own digging. for dollars yesterday.
The Suffolk County Republican was to attend a private fund-raiser at the home of Dr. Stephen Rush, a
financial supporter· and friend, in Great Neck, L.l.
Meanwhile, in Washington, a federal judge ordered the White House to tum over archived e-mails from
the first lady, President Clinton and their staff
The order came in a conservative group's lawsuit that charges the Clinton administration with attacks on
political enemies using information that bylaw is confidential.
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LENGTH: 535 wordsHEADLINE: U.S. optimistic of strong women's equality docutn;ent, but obstacles remain
.BYLINE: By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
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The U.S. delegation expressed.optimism that this week's U.N. conference on women will produce a·
strong final document to accelerate progress toward equality ofthe sexes:·.·
But the U.N. human rights chief and women's activists remain w~rri~d: They fear that some of the ·
nearly 180 countries reviewing progress toward women's ·equality since a landmark 199 5 Beijing ...
women's conference will try to water_ down that meeting's ambitious 150-page platform for action ..
During months of closed-door negotiations on the fmal document, delegates said the Vatican and a
handful of Islamic countries including Algeria, Iran, Libya, Pakistan and Sudan held up action on key
issues. For cultural or religious reasons, these countries favor the status quo and have opposed
references to reproductive and sexual rights for women, adolescent sex education and nontraditional
families.
As the follow-up meeting began Monday, leading participants spoke out against attempts to retreat from
Beijing's goals.
"There must be no going back on the commitments," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary
Robinson warned during the opening ceremony of a parallel conference of grassroots activists. "The
whole platfomi of action must not mily be maintained but mlist be reinvigorated and given practical
impetus around the world."
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This message was echoed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annari, first lady Hillary Clinton, ministers
and ordinary women, who demanded that equality of the sexes become a reality at the start of the 21st
century.
"We come here because for all of the progress we can point to our work is far from done," said Clinton,
now a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from New York. "When girls are doused with gasoline, set on
fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are too s:t,nall and when honor killings continue
to be tolerated, our work is far from done." ·
During Monday's session, Annan cited progress in women's health and education. But he also reported
that the gap between the salaries of men and women is widening,, that violence against women is
increasing despite legislation and that "a worldwide plague" of trafficking of women and children has
erupted.
Linda Tarr-Whelan, the U.S. ambassador to the Commission on the Status of Women and deputy chair
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want to go to criminalize violence against women. But she also said she was encouraged by."a lot more
consensus" on thorny issues.
"There is a neir sense of people wanting to have a good documeht OUt of this meeting, II she said. "I'm
optimistic. I think we will ,have a good document by the end of this week. I would not have said that last
week because it felt very glued up last week."
She cited agreement on a declani.tion that there has been "insufficient recognition" of reproductive rights
for women and girls since Beijing.
In a groundbreaking move, the Beijing platform stated for the first time in a U.N. document that women
have the right to decide freely all matters related to their sexuality and childbearing. But Sexual and
reproductive health care for women is far from universally available.
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Women's activists applauded frrstlady Hillary Rodham Clinton's call for equality between the sexes
today, standing to serenade her with the civil rights hymn, "We ~hall Overcome."
"Let us not just mark but celebrate a new century in which women's rights are once and for all treated as
human rights, fully respected iil every country in the world," Clinton told several hundred women from
grass-roots· organizations..
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Some 10,000 activists and delegates from more than 180 governments are in New York this week to
evaluate progress on a platform.of action devised at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing
five years ago. They also hope to find new ways to implement economic, political and sexual rights for
women.
"We come here because for all of the progress we can point to, our work is far from done," Cliriton said.
"When girls are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are
too small and when honor killings continue to be tolerated, our work is far from done," she said.
Clinton addressed a panel on microcredits--smallloans for poor 'Yomen to start enterprises aroU.nd the
world--which she promoted after she attended the Beijing conference. She said the global microcredits
program was "on track" and noted that repayment rates of loans "would be the envy of any commercial
banks" who were not used to having 94 to 98 percent repayment rates .
.Microcredit programs have reached some 20 million women arotind the world, including·in the United
States, allowing women who would not qualify for bank credit to receive loans.
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HEADLINE: Mrs. Clinton Firm On Women's Rights;
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UNITED NATIONS, New York - Hillary Rodham Clinton took time off from state politics to come
back to feminism and the United Nations to deliver a spirited speech on women's rights.
Her speech, however, was not the main event of the gathering. She spoke at one of many meetmgs
Monday on the margins of a weeklong special GeneralAssemblx session to assess the progress of
women worldwide; five years after a groundbreaking conference :in Beijing. .
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She is not part of the American delegation,· as she was then. But the difference was lost on her audience
of women from every continent, who greeted her with warmth ~d enthusiasm. They sang, clapped and
grasped for her hand as they stormed the podium.
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"We are committed to making this journey together," Mrs. Clinto~ told the cheering audience.
Her pledge came on a day when a group of independent organizations issued a call for help to forestall
efforts they say the Vatican and some conservative Islamic and Qatholic countries are making to reverse
gains achieved five years ago at the Fourth International Confere~ce on Women.
Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Mrs. Glinton had laid out the .
administration's position. "It was Hillary saying, 'Do not erode the gains of Beijing,"' he said. (NYT)
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June 7, 2000, Wednesday, FIVE STAR LIFT EDITION
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HEADLINE: THE LONGEST MARCH -- STILL
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WOMEN'S RIGHTS
HILLARY ROD HAM CLINTON was welcomed like a dear old friend when she spoke to a United
Nations meeting evaluating worldwide progress on the rights of women since the Beijing·conference
five years ago. "We are committed to making this journey together," she told a cheering crowd in New
York.
Mrs. Clinton's personal dedication is certainly not in doubt. But just how committed is the United States
toward achieving. the goal of women's equality.-- at home andabroad? That question assumes a special ,
urgency as the Vatican and a number of Islamic co~tries are bariding together to oppose some of the
goals set forth in Beijing.
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President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright anq the two leading presidential
contenders should let their voices be heard as well since women's equality should not be a partisan issue.
The United States can make its moral -support of women's emancipation meaningful in several ways. It
can direct foreign aid to international programs that lift women up. Programs that seek to guarantee .
women's equal access to education, economic opportunity, family planning and political rights have a
salutary effect on society as a whole. When women fare better, their children -- male and female -- fare
better as well.
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Women still have a very long way to go, but there has been steady progress. The U.N. conferences,
Vienna in 1993, Cairo in 1994 and Beijing in 1995, were instrumental in defining a global vision of
women's rights as human rights. In the process, they shattered the dismissive stereotype that equality is
an issue only for well-educated, Western women.
As the agenda developed by thousands of women in Beijing clearly shows, equality for women cuts
across geopolitical, educational and class boundaries. One of the top priorities is education, specifically·
closing the gender gap in primary and secondary education by 2005 and dramatically reducing female
illiteracy. Beijing also called on governments to stop violence against women, ranging from female
infanticide to dowry murders and honor killings.
Of course, the most controversial element has been the demand to respect women's reproductive rights.
That issue has been unfairly reduced to abortion -- even though it includes what should be
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non-controversial calls for prenatal care, access to strictly voluntary family planning programs, a
minimum age of consent and of marriage.
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ensure that women get the help they deserve to do their part well.
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HEADLINE: U.S. seeks softer stance on hookers;
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The U.S. delegation to a United Nations Women's Conference is leading efforts to avoid condemning
prostitution as a "form of abuse" of women and is attempting to ~eaken anti-pornography provisions.
A leading U.S. negotiator, Sharon Kotok, confrrmed reports.from closed-door negotiating sessions on a
U.N. report being drafted this week that the Clinton administration spearheaded the move for wealthy,
developed nations.
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Poorer, undeveloped nations in Africa, the Middle East and.SouthAmericahave·.strongly objected to. the
U.S.-European moves because of strong.religious traditions.
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"We the caucus of developed nations had agreed to drop all of these. phrases," Ms. Kotok said of the
anti-prostitution provision. She attributed the move to "cleaning up" the report to avoid listing specific
abuses ~at could be broadly labeled "sexual exploitation."
The United States wants to drop an attack on the pornography industry as an exploiter of women and
simply label pornographic and obscene material as an "obstacle" to women's dignity and rights.
The provisions are part of a draft report at a conference of 10,000 femaie delegates from throughout the
world, five years after the 1995 Beijing women's conference. The delegates are mapping an agenda for
women's. advancement and empowerment over the next five years.
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The United States, the European Union and wealthy, developed countries- Canada, Japan, Australia,
. New Zealand and South Korea- are trying to use the report to expand homosexual rights, create new
sexual rights for adolescent girls starting at age 10 and require abortion. training for all health care
workers.
Poorer undeveloped countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, aitd South America want stronger
pro-family provisions and condemnation of sex;ual exploitation of women through sexual promiscuity,
prostitution, pornography and other abuses.
Participants in the closed-door sessions said the United States made the move to strike the prostitution
provision in a section on women's migration after the Philippines delegation tried to strengthen it.
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·As written, the draft report noted that while global migration of women increases their earning
opportunities and self-reliance, it also exposes women and children, especially girls, to inadequate
working conditions, increased health risks, the risk of trafficking, economic and sexual exploitation,
forced prostitution, racism, xenophobia and other forms of abuse.
The Philippine dele.gation moved to drop the word "forced" so that all prostitution was labeled as an
exploitative abuse. At that point, delegates said, Ms. Kotokjumped up and moved to strike any
reference to prostitution, racism and xenophobia.
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This was not a paragraph calling for criminalization of prostitution, thus the Clinton administration
cannot contend that it was trying to protect women from prosecution for a crime in which men go
unpunished, said Kathryn Balmforth, a nongovernmental organizati.on (NGO) delegate representing
Family Voice of Utah.
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The maneuver was simply designed to prevent voluntary prostitution from being included in a negative
context.
Ms: Kotok said the United States and other countries in its caucus had agreed before the conference to
push to delete the prostitution references.
"I suggested dropping this entire phrase," she said. "We were just trying to clean it up. That was a
balanced sentence. We thought it prostitution was covered as sexual exploitation ."
However, U.S. NGOs supporting positions of the Holy See, .the Vatican's delegation to the U.N., and the
undeveloped nations' caucus called the Group of77, or G-77, said the administration has opposed U.N .
. references condemning prostitution in other negotiations.
According to published reports in the Wall Street Journal and els.ewhere, in negotiations involving the
U.N. Convention on Transnational Organized Crime in Vienna, the administration has supported using
the phrase "forced prostitution" rather than simply "prostitution,'~ thus placing women in the position of
having to prove whether their prostitution was coerced or not.
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The administration's position in Vienna this year was spearheaded by the President's Interagency
Council on Women, whose honorary chairman is first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the reports said.
The President's Interagency Council on Women also is directing the U.S. delegation's positions at the
U.N. women's conference, officials said.
"I am not involved in Vienna," Ms. Kotok, a State Department official assisting the U.S. delegation,
said yesterday.
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"It's all in brackets," she said of the prostitution section and the pornography section that the
administration wants to have modified, meaning the two sections have not been agreed to and are still
under discussion.
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"We are trying to condemn the entire pornography industry as an abuse; it is one of the obstacles we are
dealing with," said T. Malek-Ebrahimi, a delegate for Islamic Women Institute of Iran, an NGO group.
The U.S. words referring only to pornographic materials are diluting the actual language because it does
not encompass filmmakers who exploit women and children in making pornographic movies, or other
aspects of the pornography trade, she said.
Pornography is the whole institution: filmmakers, magazines, se~ shops and so forth. Pornographic and
obscene materials are only one part of it.
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Ms. Kotok says the U.S. proposal talks about products in a section dealing with women and media. "We
thought it made more sense. We thought 'pornographic materials' was more appropriate," she said.
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.NGQ group at the conference with members on five continents, said she was disappointed in the ·
U.S.-led action.
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"It doesn't make sense to me that the U.S. would loosen regulations on issues of prostitution,
pornography and abortion," she said. "It is something very damaging to women physically, mentally and
emotionally. As an American, I know how our society holds very dear freedom, but not freedom to do
anything and everything."
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HEADLINE: US secretary of state calls for global fight against trafficking
BYLINE: By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
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DeClaring that women: still have a "long journey" to equality, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine·
Albright called Thursday for a global campaign against human tr.afficking which robs millions of
women and children of their dreams .. ·
And. she. called for the benefits of globalization to be shared equally by all people in every country,
quoting U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's statement Monday that "when it comes to women,
globalization should not mean marginalization."
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The effects of globalization and trafficking on women are two m~jor issues at a week-long special
General Assembly session to review progress since the landmark 1995 Beijing women's conference
where 189 nations adopted an ambitious 150-page platform of action to achieve equality of the sexes.
The conference is expected to adopt new plans to accelerate the drive for women's equality, but a day
before it closes, delegates have still not reached agreement on many issues including sexual and
reproductive rights, inheritance and globalization and references to abortion and marital rape.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday it was important that the fmal document "maintains in full
all of the commitments in the Beijing declaration" and expressed hope that it will maintain the tradition
· "of forWard movement," U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said.
Albright echoed many other ministers and women's rights activists in demanding that there must be no
retreat from·Beijing.
"This historic meeting marks another milestone in our long journey upward to justice ... and obliges us
to chart a path that will lead to ever-more rapid progress in the n~w century," she said.
"Our movement to recognize and support women's rights is one of the most revolutionary and uplifting
forces now shaping the world," Albright said. "And it is still young, still blossoming, still only
beginning to spread the good news of opportunity and equality fqr women."
"It is no longer possible, after Beijing, to deny that women's rights are human rights, and are indivisible
from the universal rights of every human being," she said.
Albright, who attended the Beijing conference, also said it was nb longer possible to conceive of
development without including women- or to argue that beating women is "cultural" because it is
criminal "and no government after Beijing can deny its responsibility to stop these crimes."
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Some Islamic and developing countries accept wife-beating as acceptable in their cultures.
Calling trafficking in human beings - mainly women and children - a rapidly-growing global criminal
enterprise, she invited delegates from some 180 nations to join the Clinton-Gore administration "tojoin
in a multi-year, multi-national effort to win the fight against traf:ey_cking."
"If we are divided we have no hope, but together, we
be," Albright said.
will prevail. And what a gift to the future that will
The debate on the final document is echoing the dissension that tharked Beijing over reproductive and
sexual issues.
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A coalition of anti-abortion and religious activists blamed rich Western nations for pushing "radical
language" on abortion, sexual rights and homosexual rights that nave stalled negotiations.
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More liberal women's activists accused the Vatican and some Islamic ap.d Catholic countries of blocking
consensus on a U.N. document to accelerate progress toward equality for women.
Gita Sen, a professor at the Indian Institute ofManagementwho heads a grassroots women's.
organization, on Wednesday put the Vatican, Nicaragua, Libya, Sudan and Iraq at the top of the·list of ·
countries blocking a consensus and called for an end to "the tyranny of this minuscule minority."
Other delegates previously had included Algeria, .Iran and Pakistan as welL ...
If these countries don't budge, Sen said, the conference should adopt the final document by consensus
and let them express reservations about issues they oppose -just they did at Beij~g.
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A coalition of conservative and religious groups claimed Wednesday that they represent the mainstream ·
of the international community, and dismissed Western charges that only a few countries back their
views as "political spin" and "lies." None, however, named any other countries backing their position.
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Thousands of women are in New York this week for Women 2000, a conference at the. United Nations
to assess the progress women have made going into the new cent1Iry .. Women 2000 follows a landmark
global women's conference held in Beijing five years ago which appealed for women's sexual, human,
political and economic rights; This week's review conference is beset by some of the same conflicts that
troubled Beijing and some new ones. NPR's Mike Shuster has more.
MIKE SHUSTER reporting:
The Beijing Global Women's Conference(ph) set ambitious goals for women. It established timetables
for eliminating discriminatory laws against women, for increasing the number of women in government
worldwide, and for providing equal opportunity for women and girls in education. It declared that
poverty is a women's issue, that rape is a war crime and that women have the right to decide issues
bearing on their sexuality and reproduction. These last declarations were especially controversial and an
effort is under way by a few governments, notably Algeria, Iran, Libya and Pakistan, backed by the
Vatican, to roll back some of these positions. Perhaps that contril?uted to the passion that Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright displayed when she addressed the UN yesterday.
Secretary MADELElNE ALBRIGHT (US State Department): In recent years, I have had the privilege.
of meeting women from every comer of the world who are championing greater freedom, broader
opportunity, better health, more fairness, and other planks in the Beijing platform for action. Some of
these women have been beaten back, beaten down, beaten up, but they have never been defeated
because their pride is too strong and their faith in our shared cause is unshatterable.
SHUSTER: Among the goals the Beijing conference set was the equal availability of education to
women and girls. Many of those attending this conference complained that governments are unwilling
to spend much more to educate women, especially in developing nations under pressure to cut
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emphasized the importance of education.
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Mrs. IDLLARY RODHAM CLINTON: We know that the single most important investment a
developing country can make is in educating its girls and extendi,ng equal rights, responsibilities and
opportunities to women. When countries make educating their daughters a priority, we decrease poverty
and infant mortality; we create stronger families, citizens andwdrk forces.
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SHUSTER: Another target the B'eijing conference set was a figure of30 percent for female
representatives in legislatures around the world. Over the past five years, women lawmakers have
become more numerous in 88 nations, but in many, they have lo~t ground, and in only eight has the
target of 30 percent been reached. Joanne Foster(ph) who represents the group Women in Law and
Development in Africa, says even that target is unsatisfactory.
Ms. JOANNE FOSTER (Women in Law and Development in Africa): For us in Africa, this 30 percent
is not enough. We need equality. We need 50 percent. And we have also realized that where there's no
gender equity, there's no governance. The governance aspects of globalization is totally lost where
there's not that linkage.
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SHUSTER: Issues of sexual rights have been particularly controversial and they touch on a vast area of
social and political life: the effect of AIDS on women, marital rape, the size of families, genital
mutilation, sexual slavery and many more. But this time around, issues connected to globalization have
also taken center stage, reflecting a view that when jobs are lost in a global economy, women are hurt
most of all. Noline Heiser(ph) is director of the UN Development Fund for Women.
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Ms. NOLINE HEISER (UN Development Fund for Women):. Globalization clearly is an unrmished
business and women feel that unless we are a major stakeholder, we are part of the shaping of the
globalization agenda, then only would more people benefit.
SHUSTER: In any conference where 180 governments are represented, consensus is hard to find, but it
appears that the overwhelming majority of those attending Women 2000 want no reversal of the Beijing·
agenda; they want to speed up the implementation of the agenda for women that that historic conference
adopted. Mike Shuster, NPR News, New York.
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When Meaza Ashenafi attended the UN Conference ori Women five years ago in Beijing, she had
great hopes that the government of her native Ethiopia would crack down on the abduction of and
trafficking in women, and eliminate the practice of female circlimcision.
Yet today those problems persist, and she wonders whether the aims of that conference were just a
bundle of fragile hopes:
"The progress women are making is incremental--it's not a radical change," said Ashenafi, 36, founder
of the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association. "I now realize, that women everywhere have a problem,
· not just in my country."
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Like thousands of other women from almost 180 countries, Ashenafi came to New York this week to
assess the progress--or lack of it--since the 1995 conference and to discuss the daunting task of
advancing women's rights in areas from health to business.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Thursday heightened the urgency to curb trafficking in women
. when she called for a global effort to eliminate the practice.
"This rapidly growing criminal enterprise has gone global," Albright said at a special session of the ·
General Assembly held to review progress since the Beijing conference.
Trafficking, she said, was "distorting economies, degrading societies, endangering neighborhoods and
.robbing millions, mostly women and children, of their dreams," said Albright, who had just returned
from the Middle East. ·
The five-day conference, called "Women 2000: Gender, Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st .
Century," was sponsored by the United Nations. It has attracted women from all walks oflife and
professions. Events and seminars ranged. from a speech by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
condemning gender-based violence to an Academy Award-nominated documentary about Vietnamese
and American widows struggling to cope after the Vietnam War.
Yet many participants have been frustrated by the tedious process of drafting a unified plan of action for
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women's rights, which is scheduled to be released Friday.
"The debate about language on violence against women has been di(ficult-;...there has been some
disagreement about [defining] what is violence," said Susana Fried, an adviser and consultant to the UN
Development Fund for Women, who attended the conference.
"People I talk to aren't happy with this meeting," said Sapana Malia, a lawyer from Nepal. "They feel ·
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Monique Widyono, co-executive director of Equality Now, a New York-based women's rights
organization, said it's a difficult struggle making governments implement many of the reforms discussed
at the conference.
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Conference and what has happened?" she asked.
Days before the conference, the UN released a report on the global state of women, which showed,
among other things, that hundreds of thousands of women are recruited or abducted annually to work in
legal or illegal businesses.
The Asian Coalition against Trafficking in Women estimates that 200,000 Bangladeshi women have
been sent to Pakistan during the past 10 years. The Washington-based Center for the Study of
Intelligence estimated that 45,000 to 50,000 women and children enter the U.S. annually as slave
·laborers or sweatshop workers.
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·The problem also persists in the Caribbean, as 50,000 women from the Dominican Republic work._in the
sex trade in Latin America and Europe, according to estimates from the International. Organization for
Migration. Sex work in the Dominican Republic is viewed as an "alternative for young.women.who
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Middle .Eastern nations such ·as Lebanon .. Ethiopia passed alaw inJ 998 forbidding. this practice, but .·
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i'Once the women get there, their passports are taken away from them, and they can't get back home,"
she said.
As Ashenafi told her stories during a panel discussion this week, Malia listened. Malia, a Delhi
University-trained lawyer, has been lobbying her government to aggressively enforce a law it enacted in
1987 that prohibits trafficking in women.
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"We have strong legislation, but enforcement is weak," said Malia, the founder of the Forum for
Women, Law & Development, a Katmandu-based women's rights organization.
"Trafficking [in women] operates like organized crime."
As.a result, about 5,000 to 7,000 Nepalese women are sent to India annually, mostly as prostitutes, she
said. The Forum for Women estimates that about 220,000 Nepalese women are living in India as a result
of trafficking.
Besides traffic~ing, Ashenafi and other women at the conference :decried female genital mutilation and
circumcision, which persist in Ethiopia and other African countries.
"After I had my baby, I thought about what it would mean for her," said Ashenafi, who has a young
daughter. "It's very hurtful to think of mutilating my baby like that."
An estimated 2 million women and girls undergo genital mutilation each year, and about.132 million
have been mutilated in 28 African countries, according to the World Health Organization:.
But Ashenafi, who will return tci Ethiopia next week, is optimistic that her country will continue to
eliminate discriminatory laws and practices, albeit slowly. "I am hopeful that things will be improved
for niy daughter," she said.
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Americans whose only source of news is right-wing talk radio and the Republican National Committee
will be forgiven for thinking Hillary Rodham Clinton must be the most despised woman in the world.
Certainly, conservatives have turned hating Hillary into a multimillion-dollar business, churning out
· battering books, unflattering articles and not-much-mattering television appearances by a coterie of
anti-Clinton crusaders.
When her husband was. facing Ken Starr's inept scrutiny two years ago, Hillary Clinton spoke of "a vast
right-wing conspiracy" that was outto get the first family. As legal commentator and author Jeffrey
Toobin has illustrated in his .book on·the right's obsession with the Clintons, the first lady was
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essentially right ·
Yet distinctions can be made regarding attacks on America's ·ultimate power couple.· While the bashing
of Bill is rooted quite often in missteps by the president, the hating of Hillary is a far more troubling
affair-- explained not so much by the first lady's imperfections so much ·as the right's fury at a woman
who "does not know her place."
The right is not alone in recognizing that Hillary Clinton is challenging political and cultural
boundaries, however. The first lady's triumphal appearance at the United Nations Conference on
Women was a powerful reminder that Hillary Clinton -- who has traveled more widely than any
president's wife, and who has spoken out more forcefully than all of her predecessors. save Eleanor
Roosevelt -- has earned more respect internationally than she may ever be accorded at home.
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The response to the first lady at last week's U.N. summit, which seeks to accelerate progress toward
equality of the sexes by building on the work of the 1995 Beijing women's conference, indicated tqe
· extent to which Clinton has emerged as a tribune of women's struggles --not just in the United States
but around the world. The crowd's greeting had more in common with a rock concert than a diplomatic
session.
There was plenty to applaud. Clinton's remarks were pointed an~ passionate. While the woman who
wants to be the first first lady to parlay her prominence into a U.S. Senate seat has earned justified
criticism for her murky, overly cautious approach to some issues, there was no mistaking her position
on the subject of the right of women to be safe from violence and oppression.
"We have come here because for the progress we can point to, o:ur work is far from done," Clinton told
the U.N. conference. "When girls are doused with gasoline; set on fire and burned to death because their
marriage dowries are too small and when 'honor killings' continue to be tolerated, our work is far from.
done."
The directness of Clinton's remarks went over well with the crowd, but in truth she had won them over
long before she arrived. Mere mention of the first lady's name drew thtinderous applause; her actual
appearance was greeted with a standing ovation and the cheering at the conclusion of her remarks
evolved into a spontaneous rendition by the crowd of the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome."
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Hillary Clinton may be an imperfect politico, and certainly she is an imperfect messenger on many
issues. But on the issues closest to her heart-- the rights of women and children to a world free of
violence, discrimination and crushing poverty -- she has gained the confidence of those who are battling
on the front lines for justice. And for those who ponder what her sefvice in the Senate might yield, the
U.N. appearance offered a tantalizing glimpse of what might be.
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~Measuring the Progte~s of Women
. Next week at the United Nations, representa-:tives of nearly every country ·and thousands of non- ·
:··governmental groups are meeting to talk about
. what the world has done to improve ·-the ~ives of
;. women. The delegates. will evaluate what· has hap_pened since the 1995 World Conference on Women in
:~.Beijing, when 187 nations endorsed a wide range of
,. goals and promised specific actions.
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·.: broad one, encompassing poverty - 70 ·percent of
~.the poor are female - health, domestic violence,
·· armed conflict, political representation and other
· • issues. One achievement of the Beijing conference
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:.·heard in debates on just about every kind of policy.
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:-conference on women, but more than the others i~
~ established concrete targets - such as abolishing
-.· laws that discriminate against women economical''·.ly or increasing the number of women in public
_; administration - and set timetables for measuring
' progress. Activists have found tllese benchmarks
• crucial to hold~g governments accountable.
In 1998 the Women's Environment and Development Organization, a New York-based network of
groups, did a survey of progress. It found that most
of the governments represented at Beijing had
drawn up plans to keep their promises, and 64
2 . countries had changed laws. The growth of local
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women's groups has been the most important reason for these advances. Some 30,000 activists ·at- .
.tended the Beijing conferenc~. and they have used
~ts platform to organize women and to press governments to keep their commitments.. .
But most of what governments call action is still
just lofty talk, and is not yet affecting women. The
inaction stems partly from cultural resistance and
partly from lack of money to finance new programs.
Governments argtie, persuasively, that they are
overwhelmed by AIDS, debt payments and. budget
cuts demanded by_ the International Monetary
Fund. But women's issues have never been a priority, even when progress, as with educating girls,
would benefit the nation as a whole.
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In addition, many governments are not even
changing egregious laws, which .costs nothmg. In
several countries women may not inherit prpperty.
In much of Latin America, a rapist goes free if he
marries the victim. In several Islamic countries, a
man may kill a female relative who has disgraced ·
the family. In Pakistan, women's testimony has no
value in rape cases. In Kuwait, women still may not
vote. "We have prepared people to ask their government: 'Did you do what you said you would do?'"
says Litha Musyimi-Ogana, a Kenyan activist, who
could be speaking for women's groups everywhere.
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But the Vatican and a group of Islamic countries are objecting to the same
proposals they did in Beijing in 1995 --·including sexual and reproductive
·rights for women, adolescent sex education and the definition of the family-as well as some new ones.
"It's becoming very, very Clear that there are a few countries that are trying to
stand in the way of progress," said Linqa Tarr-Whelan, the U.S. ambassador
to the Commission on the Status of Women.
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Tarr-Whelan pointed to Algeria, Sudan, Libya, Iran and to a lesser extent the
Vatican, saying there has been a "backlash" against the progress that has
been made since Beijing.
"These are folks who like it the way. they have it and are trying'to slow the
whole process down," she said.
· The final document outlining initiatives to spur implementation of the 150page Beijing platform was supposed to have been completed this past week.
But the ideological divide over a range of issues was likely to keep
negotiators working through much· of the five-day conference to try to reach
consensus before it ends Friday.
At the same time, delegates are celebrating the first successes after Beijing .
. The Beijing platform runs the gamut fmm promoting women's inheritance
rights to condemning·rape in wartime ~and alleviating the increasing poverty
of women. For the first time; a U.N. d0cument declared that women have the
right to decide freely all matters related to their sexuality and childbearing.
The platform also calls on governments to revise laws to eo.sure women's
equal rights, to provide equal education for girls, and to put women in top
decision-making positions in busines~ and government.
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and more women are working and receiving health care. There's also been .
"a tremendous amount of women's rights and anti-discrimination legislation"
though not all of it has. been implemented, said Assistant Secretary-General
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For Beijing +5, negotiations are centering on a UN document called Ftirlher Actions and Initiatives,
which was compiled in November 1999 based on what has and has not been implemented since
Beijing. Although, up until last week, there remained disagreement on parts ofthe·documents, the
UN is hoping those differences will be settled in time to ensure that the five-day meetings move
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forward.
On the agenda for the week are UN committee ineetirigs, which are taking place simultaneously with
a number of panel discussions, film presentations, and key-note speeches. Topics cover the scope of
·women's concerns, including more contemporary issues of globalization, communication networks,
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Conservatives unhappy
Conserva~ive groups are not at all happy about this week's conference or its agenda, arguing that the
United Nations has no business advocating that teen-age girls have autonomy over their lives, that
traditional gender stereotypes are bad or that equal athletic opportunities for women should be
mandated.
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LaHaye Institute, a "pro-family and pro-life" lobbying group. "These meetings may seem innocuous
-- boring sessions that produce dreary documents -.,. ~uU}le end: product is a powerful instrument.
"When developing nations try to qualify for U.N. funds, they will be judged by their success at
- implementing the ptovisionsofthe document," she said. "The end result is that mere
recqtpmendations become, i11 effect, 'customary law' -- which, in tum, becomes real law."
For the past few weeks, representatives of about 117 countries have been working on conference
documents and reports that attempt to assess whether the agenda adopted in Beijing has had much
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Advancement ofWoinen ofthe·Ecbnomic Commission for'Europe, said the reports so far "reveal
that profound changes have occurred since Beijing. Governments have· adopted gender-sensitive
policies, undertaken legal reforms, made institutiopal adjustments, launched special programs and
generated. and disseminated knowledge in accordance with goals ofthe platform .
"In addition," she said,."new modes of resource allocations have emerged at national and.
international levels, although the actual amount of resources allocated to gender issues often has
lagged behind the required levels."
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In the United States, an umbrella group for~ pet:work of activist organizations, called U.S. Women
Connect (USW.C), is not so sanguine. It has produced a report card on the 12 reform topics specified
at the Beijing conference, grading the U.S. efforts to implement them. The grades range from an "F"
for the government's efforts to ' reduce poverty to a "B" for new efforts to prevent domestic violence.
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conference seriously, and we applaud its accomplishments in many areas.But the five-year review is .
just a milestone on theroad to attaining women's and girls' rights and gender equality." .
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among women has gone up despite a decrease in the overall poverty rate. Female-headed households
make up two:-thirds of those below the poverty line of$ 17,000 for a family of four. The group
claims that the 1996law overhauling the nation's welfare system "actually reduced the average
income of [female]-headed households b'y 35 percent."
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In rating national efforts in educating and training women for better jobs with a "C," the group
argued that "recent assaults on affirmative action" have eroded gains, and women and girls "lag ·
significantly in math, scien~e and technology." It criticized the Clinton administration for making
"no attempt to establish benchmarks for achieving gender equality in education."
The government's efforts to improve women's health garnered a "C-minus," despite what the group
called "impressive investments" in research on breast and cervical cancer, AIDS arid older women's
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also tackled each of the 12 issues concluding time after time that while there is far more awareness
of these concerns tha~ there was five years ago, not surprisingly, more needs to be' done.
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proved to be a "successful strategy for economic empowerment." But overall, it notes, there is a
"widening economic inequality between women and men."
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need for educating women, yet "little progress has been made in eradicating illiteracy" in Third
World countries.
While women's health is now on the rad~ screens of most governments, "the rates of ~aternal
mortality and morbidity remain unacceptably high in most countries.".
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still "women continue to be underrepresented at the legislative, ministerial and sub:..ministerial
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RU 486), the morning-after pill to prevent pregnancies. Her group also is particularly concerned
about female genital mutilation and .harsh treatment of women by the Taliban --the ultraconservative religious group controlling Afghanistan. Both are expected to be major conference
topics.
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women of color throughout the developing world, under the ~ise of "reproductive rights."
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Ms. BUNCH: We ha~e brought here women from 25 different countrie~ who wiil testify to the
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next Friday, especially on issues of health and family, said Christine Kapalata, chairwoman of the
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was then teaching a global feminism course at Douglass College, said the idea developed in various
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and grass-roots organi~ing,. came to serve as a catalyst for activists who are now part of a global
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Bunch.
"This was critical because it makes understandable the seriousness of women's rights" and clearly
articulates that human rights are fundamental, said Bunch.
"To be beaten daily in the your home, raped in the streets, forced into prostitution," is·a violation of
human rights, she said.
Affiy Bairi took a break from work on a master's degree in women's studies to help organize the
event, which is expected to draw more than 500 people. She is looking forward to meeting activists
who have crafted programs to protect women who are not equally protected under the laws of their
respective. countries.
"This is.something I'll always take with me, no matter what career I choose," said Bain, 27. "Talking·
about WO!flen's human rights will always be a part of my life.~·
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The United Nations, however, did not begin to address how those freedoms were being denied to
women until it held its first women's conference in Mexico City in 1975. Although there were two
other conferences in Copenhagen in 1980 and in Nairobi in 1985, the notion of women's huinah
rights was not recognized until the 1993 Vienna tribunal, where a litany oftestimony about abuses
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Plus Five; to review progress since the 1995 World Conference on Women. That conference
produced a "platform for action" that s.eeks to hold governments accountable when they do not
ensure women ~heir .education, health care and reproduction qghts in ·addition to freedom from
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women diplomats, she said.
The Chinese Government's plan for the advancement of women is quite comprehensive; andChina is
a country which not only commits to the commitment in Beijing Conference but also has followed
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·Ids widespread globally, impacting on the physical and emotional health of women and children,
threatening their financial security, and undermining self- esteem and the prospects of growing
normally, the report said;
It noted that in the worst situations, it is life threatefling when women are killed or commit suicide in
desperation.
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immediate services to victims.
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community an4 religious leaders, as well as boosting ~omen and. girls' security through legalliteracy,
education and employment opportunities.
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countries have begun to legislate against marital rape, including Mexico, Namibia, South Africa, and
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and honour killings, forced malnutrition, lack of access to medical care and school, forced
prostitution and bonded labour, among others.
The report includes the relationship between domestic violence and the spread ofHIV/AIDS and
highlights the link between domestic violence and the increasing availability of weapons.
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The U.N. Statistics Division report also concluded that physical and sexual abuse affects millions of
girls and women worldwide -, and remains under-reported.
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where enrollment for girls is less than 80 percent of the enrollqtent for boys. · ·
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The report also showed some interesting regional difference in women ch~osing fields traditionally
dominated by men for higher education study: 78 percent of women in the Caribbean chose science
and engineering compared with 53 percent in Western Europe-and 38 percent in southeast Asia.
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represented 11 percent of parliamentarians worldwide compared to nine percent in 1987, and in 1998,
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"Women's organizations are able to exchange strategies and solidarity, to use the net to mobilize
support for a case," she said .
In one example, UNIFEM sponsored a "virtual working group," where participants communicatyd .
through e-mail, on ending violence against ,women. It brought grassroot groups and activists across
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associations.
The Arab Women Speak Out, which set up a documentary and training program in the Arab worlq,
has reached 20,000 women across the Muslim world with films about women from low or middleincome backgrounds who have :made significant achievements 1n different spheres of society.
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corrl'erence with the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, is launching
three pilot programs to promote the use of modem technologies by women in Nigeria, the Pitlestjnian
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In sub-Saharan Africa, one of the areas most ravaged by AIDS, about 55 percent of those who have
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made even greater by the fact that women are more likely than men to care for children who suffer
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In its more than half-century of existence,· the UN periodically has examined the rights of women,
beginning with a convention on political rights in 1952. The UN declared 1975 to be International
Women's Year and held a conference.in Mexico City. That was followed by similar women's
conf~rences in Copenhagen in 1980 and in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985.
In assessing human rights, the study said that while physical and sexual abuse are knownto·be
"seriously underreporteq," more than half of all women and girls in some African countries have
undergone gerutal mutilation. An estimated 100 million to 132 million females have been forced to
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women often become estrangedfrom their countries "as a result of violence, including sexual .
violence," the report said, noting that women also are forced to have sex in order to get food and
other necessities.
When it comes to literacy, the report said women lag behind nien, espeCially in South Asia and subSaharan Africa.
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Western European women living to age 81 compared to 75 for: men, the report foun:d. By
comparison, women in southern Africa--which has a significant population of AIDS victims--have a
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life expectancy of 56 years compared to 52 for men, the study said.
Education is another area where women are outpacing men, the report found. The enrollment of
women in higher education has risen in most regions, and in the Caribbean and western Asia, more
women are enrolled in colleges than men, the study said, while 'in South America, the number of ·
women attending college is equal to the number of men.
But as more women enter the workplace, they have the added challenge of balancing family
responsibilities with their daily chores, the UN said. While more women are working in paying jobs,
" · they continue to .receive less pay than men. In ·a survey of manufacturing jobs in about 40 countries,
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shows they comprise an increasing share of the world's labor force but are making no headway in
. cracking the top echelons of business and government.
The U.N. reports show women generally manjing later, having fewer children, and living longer, but
still comprising two-thirds of the world's illiterates and almost half the victims ofHIV and AIDS.
A 180-page report on "The World's Women 2000" produced by the U.N. Statistics Division and a
21-page report by the U.N. Children's Fund on "Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls" were
released separately Wednesday, five days before the start of a major U.N. women's conference.
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women from grassroots organizations - to review progress toward implementing the wide-ranging
platform of action adopted at the 1995 U.N. women's conference in Beijing.
With the goal of achieving full gender equality, the platform called on governments to revise laws to
ensure women's equal.rights,. to provide equal education for girls and to ensure the right of women to
decide matters of sexual and reproductive health: It also urged governments and businesses to put
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HEADLINE: WOMEN-UGANDA: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INITIATIVE BEARS FRUIT
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Uganda has made significant progres's'iil'the political integration of women,' deemed an area of
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In the last· five years, the administration of Pres. Y oweri ;Museveni has thrown its weight behind
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gender equality, reserving posts for women at nearly every decision-making level in the East African
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Musveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, which came to power in 1986, has also
passed legislation that guarantees legal equality and property ownership_ for women.
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is the only African cou:ritry with a female vice president. There are seven women Y oweri
Mu~eveni's
cabinet of 47, an<J 51 in parliament.
Uganda's new constitution requires that women occupy at least a third of all p~liamentruy seats, as
well as the 10 elected councillor posts in each district. Uganda also has all-female councils atthe
local level, whic.Q. identify and solve problems specific to women.
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Under this system, Museveni's government argues, women have been given a voice at the .
community level, where most important decisions are made. Their interests are also incorporated
in national policies.
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Compared with neighboring Kenya, for example, which has only eight women in parliament and
none in the cabinet, Uganda's achievement in the last five years is phenom~nal..
Ugandan gender experts, however, argue that although the new affirmative action laws set aside
seats for women, ~ittle has been achieved in including women in areas where really. critical decisions
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During the first democratic election in May 1996, they say, women who were running against men
for parliamentary and local seats lacked both the skills and the funds to conduct
competitive campaigns, leaving them at a disadvantage.
They also argue that women's roles have been largely administrative, and their participation in
critic;al areas like budgetary allocation remains marginal.
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Democracy, a non- governmental organization based in the capital ofKampala.
"The government just wants to show that h•s giving women something because they need women's
votes. There are many women who are capable, but do not get powerful positions like men,"
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and that women must now take the lead themselves. '
,, "The political will is there," she says. "We have been given the opportunity. I think it is up to us now
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"I am going foremost as a Muslim woman with modern views to highlight .
Malaysia's achievements in uplifting the lot of women. My main interestis ·
in the handling of emerging issues and how my counterparts in other
countries are solving these contemporary issues," says Shahrizat, listing
armed conflict and technology advancement among the priorities.
During.the ha11ding-over of a. memorandum to Shahrizat, the NGOs were
represented by Shanthi Dairiam.and Ramani Gurusamy of the National Coun~:il ·
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made at the BPFA.
"We have. to make sure that we do not lose the spirit ofthe BPFA
document arid continue to gain from pas(world conferences for women."
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advances and new initiatives be made to address emerging situations.
· The memorandum urged Shahrizat to make sure that with input from the
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because of its lack of clarity reads "sustainable human development form.
in all societies is possible only when women (of all ages) are full and
equal partners in and benefit from developmen~ policy making and practice .
(in all spheres of society)."
The concern, says Shanti, is that the points in brackets were terms not
agreed upon by all. The danger then is that' governments can choose to
ignore the bracketed terms, taking advantage; of its vagueness,
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document of the BPFA.
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community indicates an agreement to a common agenda for gender equality ·
and (women's empowerment). Moreover it establishes that sustainable human
development for all societies is possible only when women.become full and
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a vital role - for example, "benefit" and "benefit equally" mean two very .
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·-parties are sincere in uplifting the lot ofwomen, .. referring to the many
vocal discussions. she has had with the various women NGOs ..
GRAPHIC: (STF) -Five years ago a commitment was made in Beijing to uplift the status of women.
worldwide. On June 5,.the issues cov~red by the Beijing Platform for Actionwill be reviewed at a
special United Nations General Assembly. _Zakiah.Koya reports. Picture- Shanti ... The National
Council of Women's Organisations 'representative feels the need for consolidation. PictureShahrizat ... Leader of the Malaysian delegation, Shahrizat will highlight· emerging issues in Malaysia.
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matters of sexual and reproductive health. It also urged governments and
businesses to put women in top decision-making positions and called for
the elimination of violence against women.
The UNICEF report said most data on violence a.gainst women are
. believed to be"not only conser.vative, but unreliable."
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prevalent and that 20 percent to 50 percent of women have experienced·
domestic violence.
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women, ranging from infanticide to spousal abuse to honor-killings, .
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underreported.
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Presenting the report at a news conference, Nitan Desai, U.N.
undersecretary general for economic and social affairs, said that
"available data show that women are making gains; but persistent
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still comprising two-thirds of the world's illiterates and almost half the victims ofHIV and AIDS. ·
A 180-page report on "The World's Women 2000" produced by the U.N. Statistics Division and a
. 21-page report by the UN. Children's Fund on "Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls" were
released separately Wednesday, five days before the. start of a, major U.N. women's conference.
Ministers from 188 nations will meet for five days starting Monday shadowed by thousands of
·.women from grassroots organizations to review progress toward implemet:tting the wide-ranging·
platform of action adopted at the 1995 UN. women's conference in Beijing~
With the goal of achieving full gender equality, the platform called on governments to revise laws to
ensure women's equal rights, to provide equal education for girls and to ensure the right of women to
decide matters of sexual and.reproductive health. It also urged governments and businesses to put
women in top decision-making positions and called for the elimination of violence against women .
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HEADLINE:tJN reports more girls in school but epidemic of domestic violence
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In an assessment of women's progress toward equality, the United Nations reported more girls are
··attending school but women and girls still confront "a global epidemic" of violence.
The mixed snapshot ofwome~ at the start of the new mille~urn shows they comprise an increasing
share of the world's labor force but are making no headway in cracking the top echelons ofbusiness
and government.·
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It shows women generally marrying later,.having fewer children, and living longer, but still
comprising two-thirds ofthe world's illiterates and almost half the victims ofHIV and AIDS.
A 180-page report on 'iThe World's Women 2000" produced by the U.N. Statistics Division and a
.21-page·report by the U.N. Children's Fund on "Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls" were
released separately Wednesday, five days before the start of a major U.N. women's conference.
Ministers from 188 nations will meet for five days starting Monday shadowed by thousands of
women from grassroots organizations to review progress in implementing the wide-ranging platform
of action adopted at the 1995 U.N; women's conference in B~ijing.
, With the goal of achieving full equality of men and women, the platform called on governments to
revise laws to ensure women's equal rights, to provide equal education for girls and to ensure the
right of women to decide matters of sexual and reproductive healtQ. It also urged governments and
businesses to put women in top decision-making positions and called for the elimination of violence
against women.
The UNICEF report said most data on violence against women is believed to be "not only
conservative, but unreliable."·
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violence in all parts of the globe, including the estimates of20 to 50 percent of women from country
to country who have experienced domestic violence."
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In 1995, the United Nations held an international meeting in Beijing on the status of women. And out .
of that meeting came a goal of achieving equality between women and men, spelling out objectives in
several areas. U. N. special adviser on gender issues Angela King discusses Beijing Plus Five, a
congress on women which con~enes next week to examine the progress women have made in five
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Beijing on the status of women. And out of that meeting came a goal of achieving equality between
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In 1999, 52 percent of the 2.1 million adults who died from AIDS worldwide were womeit The
majority of these deaths occurred in 'sub-Saharan Africa, where women account for 55 percent
of thcise infected with HIVI AIDS. In Africa, 12 wome·n are infected with the virus for every 10
African men.
In a 180-page report titled 11The World's Women: Trends and Statistics 11 released today, the United
Nations provided data on six subject areas -~ namely ·health, human rights, political.de"cision-making,
work, education, and population arid families.: ·
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women making in their lives, 11 Desai said. 11 Available data show that women are making gains, but
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The Special Session, also called 11 Beijing-Plus-Five, 11 will also.assess the progress made in
implementing the 1995 Platform for Action on women.
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The report, which is the third in a series, points out that the Beijing Platform for Action recogruzed
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levels of decision-making, the goals of equality, development and peace for women and meri cannot
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· percent of the world's cabinet ministers were women compared with six percent in 1994. Sweden is
the only country with a majority of women ministers: 55 percent.
Worldwide, more progress has been made in the appointment of women to sub-ministerial positions,
particularly in the Caribbean and the developed regions outside of Europe, where women hold about ·
20 percent of sub:..ministerial positions.
The report also says that gender parity in parliamentary representation is also still far from being
realized. In 1999, women represented 11 percent of parliamentarians worldwide, compared with nine
percent in 1987.
Women's representation, on average, was highest in Western Europe (21 percent) and in the
developed regions outside Europe (18 percent). Only the Nordic countries and the Netherlands.
have at least one-third women parliamentarians.
· Women are faring no better in the corporate world, according to the report: For example, in 1999,
women accounted for 11 to 12 percent of corporate offisers in the 500 largest corporations in the
United States.
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:The U.S. delegation expressed optimism that this week'sU.N. conference.on women wi_ll produce
a strong final document to accelerate progress toward equality of the sexes.
But the U.N. human rights chief and women's activists remain worried: They fear that some of the
nearly 180 countries reviewing progress toward women's equality since a landmark 1995 Beijing
women's conference will try to water down that meeting's ambitious 150-page platform for action.
During months of closed-door negotiations on the final document, delegates said the Vatican and a
handful of Islamic countries including Algeria, Iran, Libya, Pakistan and Sudan held up action on
key issues. For cultural or religious reasons, these countries favor the status quo and have opposed
references to reproductive and sexual rights for women, adolescent sex education and nontraditional
families.
As t}:le follow-up meeting began Monday, leading participants spoke out against attempts to retreat
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"There must be no going back on the commitments," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mary Robinson warned during Monday's opening ceremony of a parallel conference of grassroots
activists. "The whole platform of action must not only be maintained but must be reinvigorated and
given practical impetus around the world."
This message was echoed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton,
ministers and ordinary women, who demanded that equality of the sexes become a reality at the start
of the 21st century.
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"We come here because for all of the progress we can point to our work is far from done," said
Clinton, now a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from New York. "When girls are doused with
gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are too small and when
'honor killings' continue to be tolerated, our work is far from done."
Ghana's first lady Nana Agyemang Rawlings said "empowering women is an essential precondition
for liberating society from many of its self-inflicted miseries."
During Monday's session, Annan cited progress in women's health and education. But he also
reported that the gap between the salaries of men and women is widening, that violence against
women is increasing despite legislation and that "a worldwide plague" of trafficking of women and
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at the United Nations in New York this week to assess what has been accomplished. They are likely
,to find many signs of progress toward greater recognition ofwomen's-rights, and plenty of evidence
of still unfulfilled promises by the world's nations.
The platform that emerged from the Beijing meeting had vast scope. It called for inheritance rights ·
for women (still denied in much of the world), the condemnation and criminalization of rape during
wartime; greater educational and econ()mic opportunity for women; more political participation,
such as service in legislatures; and greater choice in matters of childbearing.
It's an agenda that won deserved praise and support- and, predictably, generated controversy and
opposition at the same time. Some religious groups were disturbed by the emphasis on contraceptive
rights. Declarations about economic and-politi~al rights ofwomen met deep cultura'l resistance in
some societies.
These tensions won't soon be erased. Clearly, many practices that restrict women, often tied to
religious traditions, will have to give way before the inexorable rightness of affording half the·
human race a wider path toward self-realization.
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with religion. Enlightened religious thinking, in fact, undergirds the push for greater rights. Each
individual has an inherent right to express, fully and creatively, such God-given qualities as
compassion, intelligence, resilience, and perceptiveness. Freeing women to bring their qualities of
thought to communities and to the halls of government is a pillar of continued progress.
May the meeting in New York do a good job of assessing how far the world has come in five years,
and of making sure the agenda set in Beijing stays vital.
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At Beijing, governments committed themselves to a platform that runs the gamut from promoting
women's inheritance. righ!s:tp calling on governments to provide equal education and employment.
The Vatican and some ~~;lq_Il]~q,s;.9untries continue to object to many of the same issues they raised in. '·
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means in relation to abortion, said Joana Foster, a Zimbabwean who is a leader of Women in Law
·and Development in Africa. "Africans think debates over nuances and language are a waste of time."
Ms. Foster represents a new generation of women in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia
who have worked hard through international conferences for improvements in women's rights and
are determined to maintain the momentum. She said that international agreements like the Beijing
"platform for action" have real effects in developing countries.
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"F.G.M. was a big thing in Beijing for all of us," Ms. Foster said, using shorthand for the term
female .genital mutilation, or the ritual cutting of girls' genitals. "A lot of countries have passed laws
against it. There is that sort of progress going on. For us, we don't want a document that future
governments can use to stop the progress."
In Beijing five years ago, nations agreed to end laws that discriminate against women and to open
more education to girls. They also called for closing income gaps between women and men.
Secretary General Kofi Annan opened the formal assembly session by reminding his audience of
goals still to be·m~t.~"Most countries have yet to legislate in favor of women's rights to own land,"
he said. "Violence·agairist women is still increasing~'- both in the home and in the newer types of
armed conflict which target civilian populations."
Of 110 million children not in school, he said, two-thirds are girls.
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put the issue before Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates .
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As she finished speaking, the crowd broke out into a spontaneous chorus of "We Shall Overcome."
Several delegates to the conference, which brought representatives from nearly 180 nations, said
Clinton had proven her politic·M··skills in her work for international women's rights, and although
they weren't too familiar with the details ofNew York's Senate race, said they'd vote for her if they
lived here.
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Northwestern University who· attended :the- Beijing conference as part of a, high school delegation,
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message," said Mark Weber, director of communications for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, which administers the program for HHS.
Indeed, the single largest initiative since Beijing aimed at girls carrie in the 1996 welfare reform
legislation, when Congress included$ 50 million that it said must go to abstinence-only education
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meeting, however.
"I think the U.N. conference should get an 'F' grade. As a mother of two daughters, I don't need a
U.N. treaty to tell my daughters right from wrong," said Janet Parshall, spokeswoman for the Family
Research Council, a conservative group based in Washington, D.C.
"This [platform for action] is filled with wrongheaded ideas. The idea ofblanket contraceptive
distribution for young girls? [Young girls are] walking away from the idea of 'safe sex' and rapidly
embracing the idea of 'save sex,' saying no to sex before marriage in record numbers."
In fact, Congress has always been a tough sell when it came to differentiating between boys and
girls. But in the 1990s, even before Beijing, that began to change.
Wurfnotes that her organization helped add language to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Act which directed states to provide gender specific serVices -- one of the first times that
language has appeared in legislation as far as I know."
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moving away from its cookies-and-sewing image, establishing programs to boost girls' achievement
in science, technology, sports and health.
And while only 6 percent of all private philanthropy goes to programs benefiting women and girls,
evidence of change is mounting.
In Chicago, the only foundation in the country devoted exclusively to girls, Girls Best Frierid, has
given $ 1 million since 1995 to 75 different organizations in Illinois. One program, for example,
"Girl Zone" in Champaign, Ill., holds clinics to teach girls how to repair bicycles or to help them
start musical bands.
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conference on the status ofwomen, but it was a woman from Africa who had delegates shouting in
approval when she admonished them for too much talk.
"I almost didn't come," Ugandan Vice President Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe told the U.N. General
Assembly Special Session on Gender Equality"_yesterday. "We are doing a lot oftalking. We can
come here and make big speeches, but in 25 years we'll come back, and things we'll be saying will
be just the same. In Africa, which I know very well, the political commitment [for equality] is not
there."
She said assistance to Africa now comes in the form of help building latrines and teaching women
how to bathe their babies. Those need to be changed. "We need infrastructure, electricity and
telecommunications," she said.
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The U.N. meeting comes five years after the biggest global gathering of women in history adopted ·
an ambitious platform to achieve women's equality. It was called to review progress since the
Beijing conference.
Clinton, who also took part in the Beijing meeting, talked about the need for so-called micro credit,
or small loans, to enable women around the world to buy cows, sheep, sewing machines or whatever
else they need to earn a living. There are now 1,065 micro credit lending institutions that have loans
out to 13.8 million families. She noted that women's repayment rates for micro loans so far has been
high. But while applauding this success, she repeated a call she had made in Beijing for 100 million
such loans to be extended by 2010.
"Women's rights are central to all of our efforts toward peace," said Clinton, who is the Democratic
nominee seeking a U.S. Senate seat from New York. "We have seen progress being made ... but our
work is not done."
But it was Kazibwe who said what was on the minds of a lot ofthe 3,000 delegates and 7,000
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representatives of non-governmental organizations in attendance.
The United Nations Development Fund for Women yesterday released a new report on the progress
women have made toward equality in the last 15 years. It found that only 11 percent of countries
have achieved gender equality in high schools, while 30 countries had less equality in educating girls
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From all corners of the globe, high-ranking ministers and ordinary women joined the U.N. secretarygeneral and Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday to demand equality of the sexes.
Five years ago in Beijing, the largest global gathering ofwomen in history adopted an ambitious
platform to achieve women's equality. This week, about 180 nations are meeting at a special General
Assembly session to review progress. The initial report card found this"~swer: too little.
Speaker after speaker declared that the achievements.since the Beijing conference in 1995 are far
outweighed by inequality and persistent discrimination against women.
"Much remains to be done," Secretary-General Kofi Annan said. He called Monday for immediate
action to stop violence against women, promote education for girls and close the "economic .divide"
between men and women.
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Clinton, now a candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, echoed Annan's views.
"We come here because for all of the progress we can point to, our work is far from done," she said.
"When girls are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries
are too small and when 'honor killings' continue to be tolerated, our work is far from done."
The conference is supposed to come up with ways to speed up implementation of the plan adopted in
Beijing.
That plan called on governments to provide equal education and employment, demanded that
business and government put women in top decision-making posts, and stated for the first time in a
U.N. document that women have the right to'decide freely all matters related to their sexuality and
· childbearing.
But some are concerned that the conference may roll back the gains from Beijing because of
opposition to the document from the Vatican and Islamic countries.
"There must be no going back on the commitments," said Mary Robinson, U.N. high commissioner
for human rghts.
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for sexual rights for girls from age 10, a pro- family leader said.
The international body canceled credentials for 50 delegates of several dozen different pro-family
groups after presession negotiations broke before the session, said Austin Ruse, president of the
Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, a group that monitors the UnitedNations ..
In addition; the United Nations has issued credentials for only 15 persons from the pro-family···~
groups out of about 7,000 passes for all nongovernmentalorganizations (NGOs).
"They make a great big deal about diversity, but there is no diversity of opinion on these issues. We
told them, 'We are the diversity and you are keeping us out,' " Mr. Ruse said. "I believe they're
discriminating against Christian NGOs."
Fred Eckhard, spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said there has been no
discrimination and said the delegates must not have preregistered by March 31, as required.
"I don't believe we were being discriminatory. We are in the business not to be discriminatory," he
said.
Meanwhile, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed a conference workshop around lunchtime,
in which she called for equality between the sexes. Activists lining the hall stood up and
spontaneously burst into the civil rights hymn, "We Shall Overcome."
"Let us not just mark but celebrate a new century in which women's rights are once and for all
treated as human rights, fully respected in every country in the world," Mrs. Clinton told several
hundred women from grass-roots organizations.
About 10,000 activists and delegates from more than 180 governments are in New York this week to
evaluate progress toward a platform of action devised at the Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing five years ago, and to find new ways to implement economic, political and sexual rights for
women.
"When girls are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries
are too small, and when honor killings continue to be tolerated, our work is far from done," Mrs.
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today, standingto serenade her with the civil rights hymn, "We Shall Overcome." ·
"Let us not just mark but celebrate a new century in which women's rights are once and for all
treated as human rights, fully respected in every country in the world," Clinton told several hundred
women from grass-roots organizations.
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Some 10,000 activists and delegates from more than 180 governments are in New York this week to
evaluate progress on a platform ofaction~Q..e.vi~eq at the Fourth World Conference on-Women in
Beijing five years ago. They also hope to find new ways to implement economic, political and
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sexual rights for women.
"We come here because for all of the progress we can point to, our work is far from done," Clinton
said.
"When girls are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries
are too small and when honor killings continue to be tolerated, our work is far from done," she said.
Clinton addressed a panel on microcredits--smallloans for poor women to start enterprises around
the world--which she promoted after she attended the Beijing conference. She said the global
microcredits program was "on track" and noted that repayment rates ofloans "would be the envy of
any commercial banks" who were not used to having 94 to 98 percent repayment rates.
Microcredit programs have reached some 20 million women around the world, including in the
United States, allowing women who would not qualify for bank credit to receive loans.
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under control or perhaps we thought it was' not something that was going to blow up as much as it
did now.
JUDD: (YO) An even.-greaterfailure, women here say, is that the number of women elected to
national office has barely budged. It is not even close to the goal of 30 percent.
Ms. JUNE ZEITLAND (Women & Environmental Development Organization): If women are
always on the outside banging the door to have their issues addressed, it's less likely these needs will
be addressed by those in power.
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JUDD: Despite the failures, these women believe the simple act of meeting like this gives them the
power to bang on the door and insist on changes. Jackie Judd, ABC Ne\YS, the United Nations.
·JENNINGS: Later in the. broadcast and later in the week, we'll take A CLOSER LOOK at some. of
. the other women's issues. Tonight honor killing and how i woman's empioyer could protect her ·from
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Ms. COLLEEN MODLIN: I could have ended up living in a car. I coul9have ended up totally
broke. I could have lost everything, everything.
JENNINGS: But when we come back, the pitcher who offended so many people. John Rocker is sent
to the minors.
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responsible and authorized to control women's lives and bodies.
Mac VICAR: (VO) The rrten who commit these crimes know they will probably never be punished.
The few who are arrested show very little remorse.
Unidentified Man: (Through translator) I'm proud that I killed her, I'rri ashamed tha:t she was my
sister.
Mac VICAR: (YO) These men will serve a few months in prison at most for. the murder of a mother,
sister, daughter, wife. Protests in some of these countries have produced some signs of change. For
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(OC) Do you think that you will get justice?
Mr. MARINE: (Through translator) I hope so. He should be hanged, like everyone who kills
woman.
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Mac VICAR: (VO) The honor crimes continue. But there is now at least the possibility of justice.
And just a little less acceptance of violence, in the name of honor. Sheila Mac Vicar, ABC News,
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AMOS: (YO) According to a business study; domestic violence now costs American companies up
to $ 5 billion a year in absenteeism, lower productivity and health care costs.
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victim has to escape from her abuser, the Social Security Administration now makes it e~sier for her
to get a new Social Securify"mumber. She can move, get a new joo without· leaving a trace.
(YO) California Blue Shield produced this video to encourage women to, come forward when they
need help. Yerizon, a national cell phone company, is one of many businesses which give free
phones programmed to dial 911 for victims of domestic violence.
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Ms. REBECCA JONES (Verizon Wireless): It's happening in society, so it's happening in our
workplace. And you feel rather humbled that it is an issue that we hav.e to. deal with.
AMOS: (YO) Colleen Modlin's boss dealt with it in every way he could. He stepped up security, he
met with police and personally accompanied Colleen to court.
Mr. STANLEY DILLEY (CEO Software. Completion): Why did we supp_ort Colleen?
AMOS: Yeah.
Mr. DILLEY: She is a valued employee, she was under threat. And we realized we could help her
with that problem.
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Carolina.
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WOMEN2000.
When we come back this evening, a monument to bravery and sacrifice.
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In a signed article in the report, Radhika Coomaraswamy, United Nations Special Rapporteur on
Violence Against Women points to the special responsibilities of the State in addressing the issue of
domestic violence.
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The report notes the relationship between domestic violence and the spread ofHIV/AIDS. It also
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The report calls for a series of measures to reduce this "appalling toll", including legal reform and an
end to impunity for perpetrators. The Latin America countries, which have enacted legislation, are
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru,
Puerto Rico and Uruguay.
While some countries have beg~n to legislate against marital rape, including Mexic1~·, Namib.ia,
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South Africa, and the USA, the report notes that sexual abuse and rape by an intimat'e ·partner is not
considered a crime in most countries.
The 1998 South African Domestic Violence Act contains a particularly innovative feature- granting
of a temporary Protection Order in cases where the court is satisfied that the actions of the aggressor
post "imminent harm" to the complainant.
This ruling allows protection of the health. safety, and well being of the applicant and includes
provision for the aggressor to be evicted from the matrimonial home whil~ continuing to provide
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The lJNICEF study on Domestic Violence lists a horrifying catalogueoftypes·ofviolence •
perpetrated against women throughout the life cycle by family members.
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This can begin with a sex-selection abortion and includes, aside from physical beatings and other
more "visible" forms of violence like acid throwing and hono'ur killings, forced malnutrition. lack of
access to· medical care and school, forced prostitution and bonded labour.
The report notes the relationship between domestic violence and the spread of HIV I AIDS. It also
highlights the link between domestic violence and the increasing availability of weapons;
In addition to enacting legislation, the UNICEF report gives other examples of where efforts have
been. made to tackle the problem including training the judiciary to be gender-sensitive.
Training of Supreme Courtjustices, public defenders, prosecutors, social workers and support
personnel, has been successfully carried out in Cost Rica, India and the USA.
The first women's police station, staffed with multi-disciplinary female teams equipped to respond to
the different needs of victims, was set up in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 1985 in response to women's
complaints that they could not report violations because they were treated with disrespect and
disbelief.
Brazil's success encouraged Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica. Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela to set
up their own versions.
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Such ills could be overcome "only ifwe enable \VOmen to build on the best this world has to offer,
rather than condemn them to sutTer the worst of it," he said.
"Education," he said, "is both the entry point into the global economy and the best defence against
its pitfalls."
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But she said it must also act to ensure women's participation in the global economy and the internet
revolution and address "the feminization ofpoverty"and the lack ofwomen in decision-making
posts in business and government.
More than 200· speeches are onJl)~ sqqec;iule for this week's special session of the U.N. General
Assembly. Parallel sessions for; tl)ousands of representatives of grassroots groups will cov~r topics
ranging from the effects of globalization on women to the role ofmen and boys in ending genderr
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U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is running for the U.S. Senate from New York, attended
the 1995 Beijing meeting. She is scheduled to speak at a panel Monday afternoon on one of the
issues she promoted in Beijng small loans to help poor women escape poverty. , .
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1995 inCluding sexual and reproductive rights for women, adolescent sex education and the
definition of the family.
Negotiatiors have agreed on wording in the final document's political declaration which reaffirms the
commitment of governments to implement the Beijing platform.
At the same time, however, many governments seem reluctant to set specific goals or commit
resources to implementation, and a handful are trying to "water down" commitments made in Bejing,
said Charlotte Bunch, director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University in
New Jersey, which sponsored Sunday's symposium.
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She blamed a backlash against the increasing visibility of women most blatantly by religious
fundamentalists.
Robinson said she would like the final document to ensure that there is "no dilution" of Beijing; to
affirm that states must assume primary responsibility for ensuring women's equal rights, and to send
a message that "national, cultural, religious and historical considerations ... can never be allowed to
be used as justifications for the infringement of women's human rights."
"At the end of the day, after all this resistance, I hope that common sense will prevail and that the
kind of consensus being built will not reach the lowest common denominator, but will build on the
highest human aspirations," UNIFEM's Heyzer said.
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declared that education is the key to equa)ity. because it "is both the entry point into the global
economy and the best defense against its pitfalls."
· ·General Assembly President Theo-Ben Gurirab, who was elected president ofthe·special session,
s'tressed that government policies on gender equality and implementation ofthe·Beijing platform
·::·:"cannot be an afterthought or remain simply at the level of political pronouncements or election.·
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"Resources for gender equality goals must be mobilized and utilized," hesa!d ..
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women's inheritance rights to calling on governments to provide equal education and employment .·
and. demanding that business and ~overnment put women in top decision-making posts.
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More than 200 speeches are on the schedule forthe special session.
U.S. first lady Hillary Rodhain Clinton, who is running for the U.S. Senate from Ne~ York, attended
the 1995 Beijing meeting and is scheduled to speak at a panel this afternoon on one of the issues she
promoted in Beijing- small loans to help poor women escape poverty.
But the iliost:ilnportant work will be going on behind closed doors, where negotiators will try to
reach consensus on the final document.
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Amnesty International's Secretary-General Pierre Sane accused Algeria; Libya, Iran, Pakistan and
the Vatican of playing "a very destructive role" in negotiations on a final forward-looking document.
Other delegates included Sudan on the list.
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Both Robinson, the human rights commissioner, and Sane urged supporters of the Beijing platform
to start pressuring governments to move forward.
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"cannot be an afterthought or remain simplY.~4,t the level of political pronouncements or election
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At Beijing, govenunents committed themselves to a platform that ran the gamut from promoting
women's inheritance rights to calling on govenunents to provide equal education,and employment
and demanding that business and govenunent put women in top ,decision-making·. r..o.sts.
In groundbreaking provisions, delegates also stated for the first \ime in a U.N. do.cument that viomen
have the right to decide freely all matters related to their sexuality and childbearing.
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More than 200 speeches are on the schedule for the special sessi~m. Parallel sess~<Dns.for thousands
of representatives of grass-roots groups will cover topics ranging from the effects- of globalization on
women to the role of men and boys in ending gender-based violence.
U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is running for the U.S. Senate from New York, attended
the 1995 Beijing meeting. She is scheduled to speak at a panel this afternoon on one of the issues she
promoted in Beijing small loans to help poor women escape poverty.
But the most important work will be going on behind closed doors, \yhere negotiators will try to
reach consensus on the final document.
Amnesty International's Secretary-General'P'ierre-Sane accused Algeria, Libya, Iran, Pakistan and
the Vatican ofplaying "a very destructive role" in negotiations on a final forward-looking document.
Other delegates included Sudan on the list.
Both Robinson, the human rights commissioner, and Sane urged supporters ofthe Beijing platform
to start pressuring govenunents to move forward.
The Vatican and some Islamic countries object to the same proposals they did in Beijing in 1995
·including sexual and reproductjve rights for women, adolescent sex education and the definition of
the family.
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The opening ceremony also heard speeches from Queen Noor of Jordan, U.N. Children's Fund
Executive Director Carol Bellamy and retiring Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, the U.S. Army's highestranking woman whose sexual harassment-complaint against a fellow general is under investigation.
Entertainers included U:.S. :singer Judy Collins and actress Olympia Dukakis.
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At the end of the ceremony, a group of disabled women unfurled a banner on the stage thatread ,
"Include the Disabled." They fear the impact of disabilities on women will not be included in the
final document to be approved by some 180 countries at the end of the U.N. conference.
The grassroot groups have aweeklong schedule of debates and panels, ranging from women's role in
the environinent to the role of men in women's issues.
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said Annan, who introduced her as "a great advocate and role model" who in Beijing five years
earlier "moved from government to the NGO side and really pulled everyone together."
Clinton acknowledged progress in her remarks: "Women's rights are human rjghts and Human rjghts
are Women's rights," she said. "No country today will get ahead if half of its citizens are left
behind." "Women have to continue "to stand out and speak up," Clinton said.
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and NGOs and the private sector to take by 2000'to remove obstacles to the advancemeritofwomen. ··
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Twelve critical areas identified in the document and now being reviewed were women and poverty,
education and training. of women, women and health, violence against women, women and armed
conflict, women and the economy, women in power and decision making, institutional mechanisms
for the advancement of women, human rights of women, women and the media, women and the
environment and the girl child.
At the end of the special· sessions Friday, governments were to adopt an outcome document
containing further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing declaration .
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an Iranian delegation of 14 NGOs refused to be fingerprinted at John F. Kennedy International
Airport by the Immigration and Naturalization Service as is the standard procedure for all nondiplomats arriving from Iran, and a few other countries, unless their capital requests a waiver. The
official said a waiver was not requested by Tehran and further inquiries were directed to the State
Department in Washington.
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Beijing conference, the world still has much to do for \vomen's rights.
For instance, most countries have now outlawed violence against women. However, Annan said,
crimes against women and girls - at home and in war - continues to increase.
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Although more women are decision-makers in government and corporations, women earn less, are
poorer and more often unemployed than men and many countries don't allow women to own
property. Annan added that health care improvements have saved thousands of women's lives but
AIDS is taking a devastating toll on women and girls, especially in Africa.
Finally, Annan said, girls make up two-thirds of the children not in school.
"I hope this session will put the world on notice that not only do women belong on this.planet," he
said, "but that the future of this planet depends on women." dpa go Is _ps
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improve women's conditions but failed to put a dent in the basic structural inequalities between men
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What distinguished the fourth conference was a new global commitment signed by the member
states. The commitment constituted an agenda for women's empowerment. Called the Platform for
Action, it highlighted the critical areas of concern, and defined objectives and actions to be taken by
the year 2000 to remove obstacles which prevent women from further advancement.
In essence, by signing the commitment, governments agreed to include a gender dimension across
the board - in planning, policies, decision-making.
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For. Beijing +5, negotiations are centering on a UN document called Further Actions and Initiatives,
which was compiled in November 1999 based on what has and has not been implemented since
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hoping those differences will be settled in time to ensure that the meetings move forward.
On the agenda for the week are UN committee meetings, which are taking place simultaneously with
a number of panel discussions, film presentations; and key-note speeches. Topics cover the scope of
women's concerns, including more contemporary issues of globalization, communication networks,
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improve women's conditions but failed to put a dent in the basic structural inequalities between men
and women.
What distinguished the fourth conference was a new global commitment signed by the member
states. The commitment constituted an agenda for women's empowerment. Called the Platform for
Action, it highlighted the c'riti'cal areas of concern, and defined objectives and actions to be taken by
the year 2000 to remove obstacles which prevent women from further advancement.
In es'sence, by signing the commitment, governments agreed to include a gender dimension across
the board - in planning, policies, decision-making.
For Beijing +5, negotiations are centering on a UN document called Further Actions and Initiatives,
which was compiled in November 1999]:>ased on what has and has not been implemented since
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Although, up until last week; there remained disagreement on parts ofthe documents, the UN is
hoping those differences will be settled in time to ensure that the meetings move forward.
On the agenda for the week are UN committee meetings, which are taking place simultaneously with
a number of panel discussions, film presentations, and key-note speeches. Topics cover the scope of
women's concerns, including more contemporary issues of globalization, communication networks,
and women in peacekeeping.
At its core, the Platform for Action established that women share common concerns and these can be
addressed by working together, in partnership with men, toward the.ggal of equality .
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Promises Made- Promises Broken does acknowledge some "slow" and "piecemeal" advances at
official level, but notes the serious situation of older women and lone parents living in poverty or at
risk.
_:,·,Among the 75 recommendations made to the Government are an increased investment•in \:\'Omen's
health, decisive action to eliminate persistent barriers to equality, and reBognition and vahie·of ·
women's unpaid work in the home and the community. It also recommends a system of supports that
. affords women real choice on whether to pursue caring work in the home or in paid employment,
and setting up national ~atellite household accounts to measure women's unpaid work .
. If the Government has fallen down, there is a still a positive side to the Beijing experience,
, ··according to Marian Flannery, who was one of the large Irish grouping which travelled to' China five
years ago.
"Five years ago there were six or seven women's groups in west Sligo and north Mayo, whereas now
-· there are 25," she said. "Five years ago we didn't have a dentist in Belmullet, and now. w.ecbave a
Western Health Board women's health plan, ost~oporosis screening and, most recently, .c,m excellent
conference in Westport on violence against women which was attended by all theoffi_cial bodies.
What's more, the health board is coming to Geesala in north Mayo later this month to find out what
is needed there."
It was while talking to other women, mingling witli others at the NGO Forum in Huairou, outside
Beijing, that she picked up the idea for a leadership project. This has been run over the past three
years with EU and State funding in Moygownagh, Co Mayo, taking groups of 15 women at a time.
"Five years ago, I would never have imagined that I could be arguing for specific programmes for
rural women, such as the need for training to cope with the displacement from agriculture, but now I
can," Marian Flannery said.
She looks back on a "very powerful" five years in terms of change. Advances, mainly in education,
training and health, have been "slow, costly and not very visible", and there was not a little help
from the former EU commissioner, Mr Padraig Flyim. She does not want to raise expectations, but
believes empowerment is a key. And if little progress is made among UN member-states at
international level in New York, collecting new ideas will have "made the trip worthwhile".
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This week's conference, also known as Beijing +5, ends Friday. It is expected to produce an
affirmation of the goals set in Beijing. But it also is expected to get bogged down- as it did in
Beijing- in disputes with the Vatican and some Islamic states over the definition of family, AIDS
and sex education, and sexual and reproductive rights for women.
More than 10,000 women and women's advocates are expected at the UN this week, which also has
become the preeminent forum for announcing the results of research on the status of women.
The World Bank, for instance, is releasing a study that finds that nations that adopt specific
measures to protect women's rights and to increase their access to resources and education have less
corruption and more rapid _economic growth than countries that do not.
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income that they receive on children and, unfortunately, men do not. Women tend to spend the
money more on schooling of children, food; men tend to spend extra income that they get on tobacco
and alcohol, on entertainment.
SQHALCH: Educating girls and women produces especially huge dividends. It is the best way,. for
instance, for fight malnurrition.
Ms. NANCY BIRDSALL (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): If there is a magic bullet
for development and growth, that's it.
SCHALCH: Nancy Birdsall, a development specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, says educated mothers. have fewer children and more educated children, who in tum support
more rapid economic growth. She says the report makes interesting recommendations for tackling
the gender biases embedde.d in.many cultures.
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Ms.· BRIDSALL: The report talks about subsidizing girls to go to schooL What does that mean? It
means literally, in some countries, taking the step to pay parents, to give them an incentive to keep
girls in school.
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SCHALCH: Otherwise, Birdsall says, in countries where girls earn very little, or belong to their inlaws once they marry, sending them to school may not seem like a rational investment, even if it's
what's best for the country. Lately, this topic has gotten a lot of attention. The World Bank and the
Clinton administration have both promised to dramatically increase funding to help developing
countries keep girls in school. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers may be partly responsible. Back
when he was chief economist at the World Bank, he authored a very influential study on the
importance of educating girls. Kathleen Schalch, NPR News, Washington.
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the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts talked aboutsuch problems as female genital
mutilation, date rape and low expectations for girls that often mean their brothers go to school but
they don't.
The representatives to the conference in pre-meeting sessions already have agreed to rubber-stamp
the agenda from Beijing, despite the opposition oflslamic groups and the Vatican. Such opponents
don't like the emphasis on more reproductive freedom and wider sex education for children and
young teens. As a result, the U.N. documents on such issues note that there is no universal
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Such opponents also make clear they don't approve of the presence of some openly lesbian couples
at such conferences or the acceptance of non-traditional families.
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countries that signed on to the recommendations of the Beijing conference. But the U.N.
Commission on the Status of Women, reviewing the "action plans" of various countries on how they
were meeting the goals set in Beijing, complains that almost none ofthem contained budgets for
how they were to meet those goals.
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The study concluded that in 1996, a single . parent working full-time with two children under the age
of 6 needed to spend $ 25,132 each year, ·orrS 2,094 a month, to meet the family's basic needs~
"The poverty rate among women heads of households is always very high," said Pamela Loprest, a
labor economist with the nonpartisan Urban Institute. "They are the poorest families."
In Pennsylvania, census statistics show that between 1996 and 1998 an average of 11.3 percent of
the population-- 1.35 million people -- lived in poverty. The state does not calculate separate figures
on poverty rates for female heads of households.
Poverty affects all aspects of a household, including the ability to find housing.
Craig Stevens, regional coordinator: fo.r. the··P~nnsylvania Low Income Housing Coalition, said that
10,000 households in Pittsburgh are paying-. at ·least 50 percent of their. income for housing,.or liying
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Philadelphia, the cost is $ 738.
Onder federal standards, families should not spend more than 30 percent of their income for housing.
In Pennsylvania, Stevens said, that means that 4 7 percent of people seeking two-bedroom apartments
are unable to afford them.
For people leaving the welfare rolls, housing is even harder to obtain. Jhe state average hourly
income for people leaving welfare is between S 6.50 and $.7:50 per hour.
"They would have to make $ 9 an hour in order to afford a fair market rent apartment in this area,"
said Stevens. "Every day I get a stream of people calling who can't afford the market rents and
they're looking to get into pu~lic housing or Section 8 housing.
"There is clearly a shortage of housing here. It's a bad situation for women in poverty, especially
minority women."
US Women Connect also cited the difficulty of poor women to get adequate food, education and
child care. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that at least 10.5 million households -36 million people, including 14 million children -- do not have access to enough food to meet basic
needs.
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endured "food insecurity," which is defined as irregular or reduced food intake and the use of
emergency food sources.
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hunger," said Sue Mitchem, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center.
"Simply stated, many Pennsylvanians just do not have the wages to meet their basic needs and put
food on the table."
The federal food stamp program could help, but nationwide participation has dropped from 25
million people in 1996 to fewer than 18 million in 1999. In Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Fayette,
WashingtoJl and Westmoreland counties, the number of food stamp recipients has dropped during
that same time by nearly 56,000 people, from 219,241 to 163,281.
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The United Nations General Assembly special session on \vomen opened here Monday at the
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The special session is.underthe theme "Women 2000, Gender Equality, Development and peace for
the Twenty-first Century". It will review the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action
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obstacles and key challenges remaining; It will consider further actions and initiatives for achieving
gender equality in the new millennium
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recommitment to the Beijing Platform for Action.
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Objections by the Vatican and some Islamic countries to many of the same issues they raised in
Beijing including sexual and reproductive rights for women and adolescent sex education are
expected to keep negotiators worki.ng until Friday's close to try to reach consensus.
Negotiatiors have agreed on the final document that reaffirms the comrnitment"of governments to the
Beijing platform, said Charlotte Bunch, director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at
Rutgers University in New Jersey, which sponsored Sunday's symposium.
At the same time, however, many governments seemed reluctant to set specific goals or commit
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resources to implementation, she said.
On the eve of a U.N. conference to assess progress toward equality of the sexes, the U.N. High
Commissioner for Human Rights accused some countries of trying to reverse the gains won by
women at a global gatl).ering five ye:ars ago.
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Mary Robinson declined to name the countries, but Amnesty International's Secretary-General Pierre
Sane said Algeria, Libya, Iran, Pakistan and the Vatican were playing "a very destructive role" in.
negotiations on a final forward-looking document. Other delegates included Sudan on the list.
Those who support the plan outlined in the 150-page platform drafted at the 1995 Beijing women's
conference should start pressuring governments to send a message "that we're not regrouping, or
retrenching, or going backwards," Robinson said.
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The Beijing platform runs the gamut from ·promoting women's inheritance rights to calling on
governments to provide equal education and employment and demanding that business and
government put women in top decision-making posts.
Robinson stressed the importance of the platform to millions ofwomen and girls who still faced
huge inequalities in jobs, education and living standards, and who were victims of sexual and racial
discrimination, domestic violence and prostitution.
The fact that the Beijing platform was being reviewed was worrying, she said before speaking to
about 1,000 women at a human rights symposium at Columbia University.
She said she would like the final document to ensure "no dilution" of Beijing, to affirm that states
must assume primary responsibility for ensuring women's equal rights, and to send a message that
"national, cultural, religious and historical considerations ... can never be allowed to be used as
justifications for the infringement of women's human rights."
In ground breaking provisions adopted at Beijing, delegates stated for the first time in a U.N.
document that women have the right to decide freely all matters related to their sexuality and childbearing.
Organizers estimated that 10,000 delegates and grassroots activists would attend the conference
compared to about 40,000 in Beijing, which was the biggest global gathering ofwomen in history.
Ministers from 188 nations were expected to speak at open plenary sessions this week, while work
on the final document would be going on in closed-door sessions.
Objections by the Vatican and some Islamic countries to many of the same issues they raised in
Beijing including sexual and reproductive rights for women and adolescent sex education are
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HEADLINE: Iranian women comment on protest against fingerprinting at New York airport
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Seven members of the Iranian Non-Governmental Organizations NGOs who - in cooperation with
the UN, intended to take part in the UN-sponsored meeting of Women 2000- protested against
being fingerprinted at New York airport and refused to enter America.
The ,secretary-general of the Womens' Society of the Followers of the Prophet's Household WSFPH
condemned the offensive behaviour of the American Immigration and Naturalization Service INS in
preventing the Iranian women from participating in the UN-sponsored meeting of Women 2000.
The secretary-general of the WSFPH Mrs Safaverdi who, with a formal invitation from the UN to
attend the Women 2000 meeting, arrived at New York airport-on-Friday evening 2nd June, said:
Owing to the offensive behaviour of the INS and their intention to fingerprint the members of an
Iranian NGO, the delegation refrained form attending the Women 2000 meeting.·
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Mrs Safaverdi went on: The officials of the INS did not even allow us to rest in a suitable room and
kept the I~anian delegation, who were the guests of the UN, in a room allocated for criminals.
The meeting of Women 2000 will begin tomorrow with the participation of delegations from 188
countries and 1,250 representatives of various NGOs at the main headquarters of the UN in New
York. Two Iranian women who had travelled to New York in order to attend the meeting, in an
interview about the offensive behaviour of the INS, said:
Mrs Hejazi- recording I am Hejazi, a member of the Women's Society oflslamic Revolution
WSIR. In line with a UN invitation extended t'o the Iranian NGOs for participating in the Women
2000 meeting and considering that we had prepared ourselves for the said meeting, we WSIR too
received an invitation from the UN. When we arrived at New York airport all of us together with a
number of other people - whom we later realized were Iranians too - were separated from the others.
The officials wanted to take photos and fingerprint us. However, we refused and asked for reasons
behind these actions. After a long talk, they the US immigration officials confessed that people from
certain countries including Iran are fingerprinted on their arrival to the USA. And, the reason being
that America considers those countries as terrorist states. Because we considered this as an
unwarranted allegation and a lie against the holy system of the Islamic Republic, we rejected
fingerprinting and did not want to confirm their allegations, lies and idle talk.
Mrs Mohammadi- recording I am Mohammadi, a member of the WSIR. As a member of an NGO I
travelled to New York via Turkey in order to attend the UN-sponsored meeting of Women 2000. In
New York our delegation faced a problem. We were asked to be fingerprinted and we refused. The
interesting point being that they the US immigration officials wanted, through various methods, to
persuade us to be fingerprinted. Sometimes they used threats and sometimes persuasion. We did not
accept their approach and told them: We are here at the invitation of the UN and our arrival has
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driving force to liberalize Iran. But ironically, in the process of reform, .they have been sidelined.
Most Iranian women seem to agree that the dress code is the least of their problems.
Unidentified Woman #2: In our country, we have so many thing more important than a scarf.
FENTON: For example, they need their husband's permission to travel to work, men can divorce
them at will and adultery by women is punishable by stoning to death. In the meantime, like this
young woman, they smile and pretend things are OK.
Unidentified Woman #1: You know, I'm satisfied with my life.
FENTON: That's good.
Unidentified Woman #1: I have to.
FENTON: Yeah.
For now. Iranian women are settling for evolution. rather than revolution. Tom Fenton, CBS News,
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ROBERTS: Coming up next on the CBS EVENING NEWS, how much help should the government
give to families looking for better homes? And later, across the English Channel and 60 years,
reliving t~e miracle of Dunkirk.
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hold state agents accountable.
FEYERICK: The president of the U.N. General Assembly blames the lack of political will.
THEO-BEN GIURAB, PRES., U.N. GEN. ASSEMBLY: And if there is political will, we would
have gone a long way toward meeting the goals and objectives set in Beijing.
FEYERICK: Ofmore concern, say human rights observers, the opposing countries are not only
trying to block progress, they're trying to reverse it as well.
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MARY ROBINSON, U.N ..HIGH COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: The few that don'twant
progress are very effective, and that's a problem.
FEYERICK: A problem because the gains are still fragile.
(on camera): U.N. officials say progress has been made in areas iike education and health, but the
biggest achievement, many of the leaders here feel, has been a strengthening of the women's
movement and a greater sense of female empowerment.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Women themselves have really through this process of empowerment
taken their future and their fate into their own hands.
FEYERICK (voice-over): A future they hope to shape through symposiums like this that aim to
influence global opinion.
Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.
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complete equality between: men and women was agreed for the first time.
From the start it was clear that implementing this concept in full everywhere, including in the
developing world, within five years was a dream.
"The initial enthusiasm of Beijing has given way to disillusion," says Annette Widman-Mauz, a
member ofthe 35-member German· delegation.
The European Union countries are aiming at setting up concrete goals with clear deadlines for
turning the plan of action into reality, preferably by 2005 at the latest.
But the internal negotiations ahead of the conference have shown that international women's politics
will at best make progress in small steps in the future.
A comparison between the goals of Beijing and their realization be~rs this out. ·Beijing formulated
aims in relation to 12 main problems, among them women and poverty, women in positions of
power and institutional mechanisms for promoting women.
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Assembly "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and,Peace for the 21st Century".
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The UN conference to be held in New York City between June 5-9 is a follow-up to the Fourth
World Conference on. Women held in Beijing in September 1995.
The research findings;on gender equality·; reduced corruption and growth won't surprise women's
rights advocates. But the report notes that in politics, women continue to be vastly underrepresented
in national and sub-national assemblies, accounting for less than 10 per cent of the seats in
parliament in all but a handful of countries.
Thailand is among countries with the lowest rate of female representation in parliament at 4.8 per
cent in the House of Representatives, accord.ing to the Inter-Parliamentary Union; The rate is far
behind the Asian average of 14.3 per cent.The worldwide average ofwomen's representation in
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Next week at the United Nations, representatives of nearly every country and thousands of nongovernmental groups are meeting to talk about what the world has done to improve the lives Of ·
women. The delegates will evaluate what has happened since the 1995 World Conference on
Women in Beijing, when 187 nations endorsed a wide range of goals and promised specific actions.
The subject of women's needs is, of course, a broad one, encompassing poverty-- 70 percent of the
poor are female -- health, domestic violence, anned conflict, political representation and other
·issues. One achievement of the Beijing conference was its acknowledgment that women need to be
heard in debates on just about every kind of policy.
The Beijingconference was the fourth U.N. conference on women, but more than the others it
established concrete targets-- such as abolishing laws that discriminate against women economically
o{increasing the number of women in public administration---- and set timetables for meas~rlhg.:
progress. Activists have found these benchmarks crucial to holding governments accountable.
In 1998 the Women's Environment and Development Organization, a New York-based network of
groups, did a survey ofprogress. It found that most of the governments represented at Beijing had
drawn up plans to keep their promises, and 64 countries had changed laws. The growth of local
women's groups has been the most important reason for these advances. Some 30,000 activists
attended the Beijing conference, and they have used its platform to organize women and to press
governments to keep their commitments.
8 ut most of what governments call action is still just lofty talk, and is not yet affecting women. The
inaction stems partly from cultural resistance and partly from lack of money to finance new
programs. Governments argue, persuasively, that they are overwhelmed by AIDS, debt payments
and budget cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund. But women's issues have never been
a priority, even when progress, as with educating girls, would benefit the nation as a whole.
In addition, many governments are. not even ch'anging egregious laws, whichCO$tS nothing. In
several countries women may not inherit property. In much of Latin America,· a rapist goes free if he
marries the victim. In several Islamic countries, a man: may kill a female relative who has disgraced
the family. In Pakistan, women's testimony has no value in rape cases. In Kuwait, women still may
not vote. "We have prepared people to ask their government: 'Did you do what you said you would
do?'" says Litha Musyimi-Ogana, a Kenyan activist, who could be speaking for women's groups
everywhere. This is a big achievement, but the answer in too many places is "no."
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Asked by NBC-TV anchor Tom Brokaw Thursday to describe the biggest threat to Russia, President
Vladimir Putin didn't cite NATO expansion or the proposed U.S. missile defense or Chechen
terrorists, but rather "ineffective economic policy."
It has been nearly half a year since Putin took over the Kremlin from Boris Yeltsin, first as his
appointed successor and then as elected president. Yet the fom1er KGB operative's. commitment to
democracy and his vision for Russia remain largely a mystery both inside and outside the country ..
But Putin's response to Brokaw's question decisively illustrates that he recognizes how essential
fixing the economy is to Russia's future. That is encouraging. Furthermore, he demonstrated that
commitment last week by unveiling sweeping tax reform as one his first major policy initiatives.
Russia's economy currently is growing solidly, still boosted by the after-effects of the sharp ruble
devaluation in August 1998 and by high oil prices. But to transfom1 itself into a modem, thriving
economy not totally tied to the volatile vagaries of oil, the nation's structural economic problems
must be corrected. There is no more fundamental impediment than a tax system so convoluted and
punitive that its main outcome has been to keep a lot of commerce in the gray zone of the barter
economy and to fuel capital flight out of the country.
It has been said that only the compulsively honest actually paid their taxes in Russia. And a
government that can't de.pend on a steady revenue stream from taxes can never begin to provide the
services that might help build citizen trust in the government. It's a circle.
Tax reform is crucial. That is why Putin's proposed 13 percent flat tax is so important. He is also
proposing to s!mplify business trans~Sfl-?rP·s~~~es, which have been draconian, and. to sharply raise
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problems beyond the economy, ranging from Chechnya to corruption. But the importance oftax
refom1 as a crucial step cannot be underestimated. It signals Russia is on the right road, a fact noted
by President Clinton, who is due to arrive in Moscow Saturday to meet with Putin, when he spoke of
Russia's remarkable-though still incomplete-journey over the last few years.
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President Clinton's looming decision on a national missile defense system has cast a shadow over his
meeting this weekend with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin, like America's NATO
allies, has been warning that any change in the 1972 ABM treaty necessitated by Washington's
pursuit of a dubious missile defense can unravel the entire fabric of arms control agreements.
So it is just as well that administration officials are saying they expect no deal on the ABM treaty to
be struck at the summit. Their reasons for abandoning expectations of a bargain with Putin may not
be reassuring for the long run, however.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jesse Helms ofNorth Carolina, favors a
grander missile defense. He has said: "Any decision on missile defense would be for the next
president to make, not this one."
The Kremlin has been no less adamant in rejecting a deal. In reality, it would be in Russia's interest
to seeka bargain, since Russian specialists understand that the missile defense system being tested in
the United States depends on infrared sensors that carmot distinguish warheads from decoys and that
there would be no realistic threat to Russia's nuclear deterrence for the next 10 to 15 years.
If the dispute over missile defense is to be carried over into future U.S.-Russia dialogues, there are
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Die Aktionsplattforrn, das Abschlussdokument der 4. Weltfrauenkonferenz in Peking 1995, ist ein
umfassendes Kompendium politischer Handlungsanweisungen in zwoelf gesellschaftlichen
Problemfeldem, urn "Empowem1ent" von Frauen und Geschlechtergleichheit zu erreichen. Die
Aktionsplattforrn hat Aufforderungscharakter, sie ist kein rechtsverbindliches Dokument fuer die
Unterzeichnerstaaten.
Zur Bilanzierung haben die UN einen Fragebogen an die Regierungen verschickt, 135 Antworten
erhalten und diese zu einem Ueberblicksbericht zusamrnengefasst. NROs haben in vielen Laendem
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Gleithstellung stehe im Mittelpunkt der Politik", kritisieren die NROs, dass frauenpolitische
Haeppchen ausgegeben wurden, aber nicht wie versprochen_eine Geschlechterperspektive in aile
politischen Ressorts eingebracht \vurde. Die Probleme von Menschenrechtsverletzungen und Arrnut
im eigenen Land wuerden unterschaetzt, die von ostdeutschen Frauen und Migrantinnen seien zu
wenig beruecksichtigt.
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. 2000: Geschlechtergleichheit, Entwicklung und Frieden fuer das 21. Jahrhundert". Sie soli zwei
Dokumente verabschieden: eine Z\veiseitige politische Erklaerung, auf die die
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ueberprueft, aktuelle Herausforderungen beschreibt und neue Massnahrnen und Initiativen anstossen
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gestritten.
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Suedens) und Juscanz (Japan, USA, Canada, Australien, Neuseeland). Der Vatikan ist sehr praesent,
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HEADLiNE: Equality, development and peace: 21st century women, THE INDEPENDENT
BYLINE: Dr Maswoodur Rahman Prince
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THE 1995 Beijing conference brought women from around the world together to proclaim
women's equality and to challenge heads of states to implement policies that would guarantee the
human rights of women. The result of this milestone conference was the Beijing Platform For
Action (PF A), a global plan of action joined by 189 countries that reflected a new international
commitment to the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere. The Beijing
declaration and the platform for action was adopted at the Fourth World Conference on women held ·
in Beijing from 4th to 15th Sept in 1995. Twelve areas of concern were identified in the Beijing
Platform For Action (PF A). These areas of concern are: growing poverty of women, in equal
opportunities ofwomen for education, training and health care, violence against women, women
victims of armed conflicts, women's limited right to property, inequality in decision making and
power sharing, inadequate institutional infrastructure for women advancement, violation of women's
human rights, negative projection of women in mass media and inadequate participation in the same,
women's limited access to environmental conservation and also to natural resources and
discrimination against the girl child. It may be appropriate to recall the history of world conferences
on women. The UN declared 1975 as the Year for Women with a view to ensuring social, political
and economic advancement of women and their empowerment. The first conference on women held
in 1975 declared the period 1976~ 1985 as Decade for Women. The goals for this women's decade
were equality, advancement and peace. The second world conference on women was held in
Copenhagen in 1980. In the second conference the progress achieved during the first five years of
the Decade for women were reviewed. Another three areas of education, health and employment
were identified within'the purview of the goals of Women's Decade. The third world conference on
women was held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985 where forward-looking strategies based on equality,
development and peace were adopted for the advancement of women. At the preparatory stage of
fourth world Conference, on Women the Jakarta Declaration and work-plan was adopted in the
second Asian and Pacific ministerial-level conference on women in development held in Jakarta in
1994. The declaration noted the existence of extreme inequality between men and women in matters
of distribution of power and decision making. The Commonwealth prepared the work-plans on
Gender and Development in 1995. The Action Plan on Environment and development adopted in the
Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the Vietnam Declaration on Human Rights in 1993, the Population and ·
Development Action Program adopted in the ICPD in 1994 in Cairo and the Action Plan adopted in
the World Social Summit in Copenhagen in 1995 put maximum importance on matters related to
advancement of women and children and their rights. The United Nations General Assembly will
meet in a special session from 5 to 9 June 2000 for Beijing+ 5, the United Nations five- year review
of the implementation of the Platform for Action, agreed at the Fourth World Conference on Women
held in 1995 in Beijing. While monitoring Beijing+ 5, we should keep foremost in our minds the
successful outcome of last year's ICPD+ 5 review. The ICPD + 5 review assessed the
implementation of the Program of Action of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population
and Development (ICPD). While the negotiations at ICPD + 5 were protracted and often difficult,
their result was agreements on a set of forward looking and concrete targets and benchmarks to
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June 2, 2000, Friday, FINAL
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.HEADLINE: Nigerian women focus offorida film
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Jane Fonda has finished a documentary she began after visiting Nigeria to see the challenges facing
adolescent girls in Africa's most populous country.
Realities of Girls' Lives: How We Can Act Now was shown Tuesday night to more than 300
diplomats, women's activists and delegates to next week's followup meeting to the 1995 women's
conference in Beijing.
The documentary, narrated by Fonda, describes the poverty that most girls in Nigeria live with, the
double-standards they confront on sexual matters, the high teen pregnancy and abortion rates and the
abuse they face.
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Fonda said.
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HEADLINE: U.S .. & WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
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Clinton weighing land reserve call
WASHINGTON- Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on Wednesday asked President Clinton to declare
four new national monuments, including one at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state
that would protect 200,000 acres.
The three others would protect nearly 3 51, oqo acres of federal land in Oregon, Colorado and
Arizona. If Clinton approves the request, as expected,. he will have used the Antiquities.....Act ;to• protect
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Genetic researchers have accelerated a plant's growth by making its cells split faster - a technique that
could someday lead to heartier crops, shorter growing seasons and less use of herbicides.
One outside scientist called the findings astonishing. "It's sort oflike.they've been able to make the
plant go full throttle," said plant growth biologist John Schiefelbein at the University of Michigan.
But the technique needs more testing on a range of plants, and public fear of genetically modified
food is jeopardizing support for such experiments, especially in Europe, researchers said. The
experiment, reported today in the journal Nature, was ~arried out by a team at Cambridge University
in Britain.
Big Pacific turtle near extinction
NEW YORK - Leatherback turtles will all but disappear from the Pacific within a decade unless
commercial fishing practices are changed, according to an analysis of the reptiles' nesting activity.
The turtles, which can weigh 800 pounds, have been dying in large numbers- at least 1,500 females
every year, by some estimates - caught in the long lines and nets used by commercial fishers.
This level of mortality, combined with the natural high mortality ofturtle hatchlings, means that the
population is unsustainable, according to the analysis, a computer model devised by scientists at
Drexel University in Philadelphia. The study is being reported today in the journal Nature.
From a high of 1,3 67 females that nested at Playa Grande, Costa Rica, in 1988, the model forecasts
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Sergei Zveryev was riding in a car in the capital, Grozny, when a remote-control bomb ripped
through his vehicle Tuesday evening, said Musa Dzhamalkhanov, a spokesman for Russia's temporary
administration in Chechnya.
Grozny Mayor Supyan Makhchayev, who was with Zveryev, was injured in the bombing.
Makhchayev's assistant was killed.
The Chechen rebels' ability to pull off such an attack in the Russian-controlled capital was yet another
sign of their stepped-up resistance. Eight 'months after Moscow sent its forces into the North
Caucasus republic to quell rebel activity, it is the rebels who appear to have the initiative.
Zimbabwe will speed land grab
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government will bring its land
campaign to a climax Friday by seizing at least 840 white-owned farms without compensation,
officials said Wednesday.
By rushing to confiscate the lanc;l before parliamentary elections on June 24-25, Mugabe is slamming
the door on international aid for land re.distribution. He has stated his detennination to seize the
farms, no matter what the reaction of the international community.
At least 26 people, most of them opposition supporters, have been killed in political violence that
began in February. Four of the dead were white farmers.
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--Demolition experts in Eunice, La., blew up two derailed railroad tankers Wednesday to burn off
hazardous chemicals inside,,keeping 4,100 of the town's 11,000 people out of their homes for a fifth
day. Authorities decided that cleaning up the Union Pacific train wreck would be safer with a burnoff
--A 15-year-old Florida boy was charged Wednesday in the death of a 12-year-old friend whose
bound body was found in an empty septic tank three days after he disappeared. Authorities in
Interlachen, about 50 miles southwest of Jacksonville, said John Anthony Silva, oflnterlachen, was
arrested Tuesday evening and charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping in the death of Jerry
Lee Alley Jr.
- - Residents of South America's biggest city raced Wednesday· to fill pots and even swimming pools
with water in preparation for five months of water rationing. Starting today, about 3 million people,
nearly a third of the population of Sao Paulo, Brazil, will be required to follow a plan that calls for
two days with water, one day without.
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The U.N. Statistics Division report also conCluded that physical" and sexual abuse affects millions of
girls and women worldwide -- and remains under-reported.
In education, enrollment figures show the gender gap closing in primary and secondary schools, but .
the gap is still wide in 22 Mrican and nine Asian countries.
"It is unlikely this gap will be closed by the target date of2005," Desai said.
While the statistical report showed women generally' marrying later, having fewer children, and living
longer, it also found that they comprise two-thirds of the world's illiterates and almost half the victims
ofHIV and AIDS .
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When it comes to work, the study found that at least one-third of women are part of the work force
in all regions except northern Mrica and western Asia.
But it also concluded that "women remain at the lower end of a segregated labor market and continue
to be concentrated in a few occupations, to hold positions of little or no authority and to receive less
pay than men."
In the five years since Beijing, the report said, "women's participation in the top levels of government
and business has not markedly increased."
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their daughters to school.
In Bangladesh, more than eight million women, many of them among the most disadvantaged from
rural areas, have received food aid so they can start earning a livelihood.
Bertini plans to brief the special sessionofthe UN General Assembly, to be held in New York June 59, on the WFP's commitment to gender equality and development, nearly five years after the Beijing
conference.
"Five years ago the title of my speech was 'Women eat last', she told AFP. "And I said women find
food, they cook the food, they serve the food, they feed their husbands, when they should eat first,
particularly if they are pregnant.
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"This time I'm going to talk more about the fact that women still eat last, but that we· have to
remember the poorest."
Bertini described the plight of many women with an example from Mozambique where "a lot of men
and teenage boys" were idling the day away while women with their small children were "working at
a river bed tending the crops and vegetables."
Asked why they were not helping, men's refrain was that women would cook whatever they bring
home. "And what do you do?" Bertini said she asked. "We build houses when we need a new one,"
was the answer.
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"All over the world women are the ones that are taking care of their families and usually not getting
paid for it," said Bertini. "Whether the men are productive or are not productive, the women are
doing their jobs all day and all night. And they keep the family together."
Eighty-nine million people worldwide benefited from WFP aid last year, ofwhich 19 million were
helped through development and food-for-work projects to promote agriculture, improve the .
environment and in projects such as school feeding, health and nutrition.
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Another 29 million people, who lost their homes due to civil war and political conflict, and 41 million
victims of earthquakes, severe floods and droughts were also beneficiaries qf a total 3. 4 million
· tonnes of food delivered to 82 countries.
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This holistic approach involves what is being dubbed by the United Nations organization th~ "'ABC
strategy."
"The 'A' is for advocacy, because within our programs and as an agency, we need to be out there
advocating on behalf of women and women's issues," says Massiah.
"The 'B' is for brokering. We have an advantage in UNIFEM in that we have grown out of the
international women's movement so we have strong links with NGOs (non-governmental
organizations), as well as with governments, so our ability to bring those two groups together allows
us to tap into other groups and therefore find a way of getting everyone to work together on the
same issues," she adds.
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Massiah notes that the "C" is for capacity building since UNIFEM must offer technical assistance and
provide necessary resources, for projects which are aimed at the development of women in the
region.
The idea, says Massiah, is to bring together as many countries as possible in the region to work
together rather than individual countries proceeding with their own plans and programs.
She notes for example that UNIFEM was able to organize a women's human rights campaign
between 1998 and 1999 which had a fair level of success throughout the region.
"It was intended to drav.: public attention to the issue of violence against women and persuade policy
makers to adjust policies and implement new ones in order to address that problem and to encourage
women to speak out about the issue and assist others facing the same issue.
"We were able to bring together people in all the different countries. We worked through the Ministry
of Education throughout the region and crisis centers," she says.
And this area -- violence against women -- is one in which Massiah is only too aware that her
organization still has a lot ofwork to do.
Although in the last five years since the Beijing conference on women many ofthe countries
government have implemented laws which seek to address more adequately violence against
women, this problem continues to be a big headache for women's groups.
In the northern Caribbean island of Jamaica, for instance, reports indicate that in 1989 just under
2,3 00 women were victims of rape, domestic violence and incest. By 1999 the figure had jumped to
.more than 6,600.
While for other Caribbean islands, the figures are not readily available, anecdotal accounts indicate
that violence against women is on the rise.
"With regard to violence against women, it is not possible to get an accurate picture of the incidence
in all its manifestations in the Caribbean region, nor variations over time because of underreporting
and an inadequate collection and compilation of statistics.
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May 31, 2000, Wednesday
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HEADLINE: Highlights, Important Findings in The World's Women 2000
DATELINE: UNITED NATIONS, May 31
BODY:
The United Nations on Wednesday released a report The World's Women 2000: Trends and
Statistics, a one-of-a-kind compilation of the latest data documenting progress for women worldwide
in ·six areas.
Fallowing are the highlights and important findings of the report HEALTH
-- There are continuing differences in lifetime risk of maternal mortality between developed and
developing countries. An African women's lifetime risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is one
in 16; in Asia, one in 65; and in Europe, one in 1, 400.
--Women now account for almost half of all cases ofHIV/AIDS, and in countries with high HIV
prevalence, young women are at higher risk of contracting HIV than young men.
-- Life expectancy continues to increase for women and men in most developing regions but has
decreased dramatically in Southern Africa as a result of AIDS.
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--Women now comprise an increasing share of the world's labor force, at least one third in all regions
except in northern Africa and western Asia.
-- Self-employment and part-time and home-based work have expanded opportunities for women's
participation in the lat?or force but are characterized by lack of security, lack of benefits and low
mcome.
-- More women than before are in the labor force throughout their productive years, though obstacles
to combining family responsibilities with employment persist.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING
--Physical and sexual. abuse affect millions of girls and women worldwide, yet are known to be
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HEADLINE: Domestic violence still a global problem: UNICEF
DATELINE: GENEVA, May 31
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Domestic violence against women and girls is still at epidemic proportions globally, the UN
Children's Fund, UNICEF said here Wednesday, five years after a conference in Beijing called for
global action to end violence against women.
Violence continues to cut across cultures, class, education, incomes, ethnicity and age in every
country, a study by UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre in Italy said.
"They are victims of their own families, killed deliberately or through neglect simply because they are
female," the UNICEF study said.
The study said violence carried out against women by family members includes sex selection
abortions, physical beatings, acid throwing, honour killings and lack of access to medical care.
The study's release came ahead of a meeting in New York on June 5 to study what has been achieved
since the Beijing conference on women five years ago.
Domestic violence not only affects the physical and emotional health of women and children, but
threatens their. financial security and undermines their self-esteem, the report notes.
And the report calls for action from states as well as religious leaders and civil society in addressing·
the causes ofviolence against women.
"Governments should ensure that there is no impunity for the perpetrators of domestic violence and
that incidents of family violence are investigated and punished," the UN special rapporteur on
violence against women, Radhika Coomaraswamy, said in an article inside the report.
A number of Latin American countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico and Uruguay have enacted legislation to
end impunity for perpetrators.
Some countries have also begun to legislate against marital rape including Mexico, Namibia, South
Mrica and United States, but sexual abuse and rape by an intimate partner is not considered a crime
in most countries, the report notes.
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heard at the ballot and soap boxes against rape or sexual slavery. 36:36. ·
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John & Ken Show
KABC-AM 790 (ABC) Radio Los Angeles
06/05/2000 7:00-9:00 am
07.01 Women 2000 is open in New York today, promoting women's equality. I; Angela King, UN
Secretary General's point woman for gender issues.
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Eyewitness News At Four
KABC~TV CH 7 (ABC) Television Los Angeles
. 06101/2000 4:00 - 5:00 pm
54.02 TZ; Women 2000. The UN released a new report on efforts to create equality between men and
women. I; Carl Bellamy, UNICF, said women have a long way to go to rea~h eq·uality. Women
comprise anincreasing share of the work force. 55.08
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KABC-TV CH 7 (ABC) Television Los Angeles
06/05/2000 6:00-7:00 am
10.16 National Headlines withAnderson Cooper >President Clinton speaks at Russian Parliament
First American Presidentto do so. >Earthquake in Sumatra. >Murder c.harges dropped for R. Lewis in
exchange for testimony. >U.S. Embassy reports issued cin Terrorism. >Supreme Court Rulings >Hillary
·. Clinton speaks at United Nations regarding women's rights. >WetlandsReport >new Annie unveiled
for newspaper cartoon. >V; graduation in Padukah, Kentucky where M. Jenkins paralyzed by. student ·
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gun violence walked with a walker across the stage to get her diploma. 12.37
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KFI-AM 640 (MRN) Radio Los Angeles
06/05/2000 6:00 -7:00am
07.15.30 Womens Conference, News.
21.40 Global Womens Conference will meet in New York. 07.25.55 Topic about womens rights in the
US and abroad. 07.26.05 Traffic.
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33:oo Equality The UN is sponsoring a conference on women's progress.
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06/06/2000 8:00-9:00 am
01.20 Headlines. > Recap on John .Rocker from first hour. > Recap on Prison Escape from fist hour. >
AI Gore announced a plan to give states the ability to improve childcare. > Philip Morris is suspending
ads in "Rolling Stone" and "Sports illustrated" mags. They don't want to pitch tobacco to minors. >
Recap on Supreme Court rulings from first hour. >Two seniors who thought they won scholarships
from Boys & Girls Club will be getting 25,000 dollars. > Thousands will attend the opening of the 0-0ay
Museum in New Orleans today. V; Scenes from the mUseum. I; Fred Howse, Veter~n. says it was a
scary time. I; Stephen Ambrose, Museum Founder, says this is a great day. I; Jack Hoffler, Veteran,
says there were many guys killed. Barry Sarifen reporting. > More then 10,000 activists are at the UN
· for a International Womens Conference. V; Hillary Clinton at conference. > One waitress got a
·10,000 dollar tip after serving a British doctor. She told the doctor she was going to graduate school.
06.03
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00.52 Women 2000. Women from around the world are gathering in New York, for the United
Nations women 2000 conference. V; Exterior, United Nations Building. V;Women. I; Angela King
U.N. Advisor and Gender Issues, says that there has been great improvements in the treatment of
women. Violence between woman and children has become more of an epidemic. V; Interior, United
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1.47 Women 2000. About 10 thousand women are in New York for the Women's Platform of Action.
V; Women in New York, NY. It is part of the UN program committed to closing the equality gap
between IT!en and women. The idea was adopted at UN Inti. Conference on Women in 1995. I; Yakin
· Erturk, bir., UN Advancement. of Women says we want to bring about empowerment. 2.21
20.
CBS Evening News
CBS Network National
06/04/2000 6:00-6:30 pm
15.26 TZ; Changing Women. There was a national womens conference held over the weekend
where· all the women in about every country are willing to make a change, except Iran. V; Irani
women. There are signs of young women who are willing to push the envelope. I; Unidentified
woman, Iranian woman, says there are some women who are afraid to go to parties and have
boyfriends. Women are a driving force to liberalized in Iran. I; Unidentified women say they worry
about more important things than their clothes. Tom Fenton reporting. 17.53
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14.42 Beijing Plus 5 ·Meeting. Women from around the world are meeting to discuss the rights of
women V; New York. I; Charlotte Bunch, Rutger's Ctr for Global Women's Leadership.· I; Sec Gen
Pierre Sa(le, Amnesty Inti, says some countries have not put reforms into action. I; Thea-Ben Giurab,
pres UN gen assembly, blames a Jack of political will. I;. Mary Robinson, UN High Commission for
Human Rights, says those who oppose these reforms oppose progress. Deborah Feyerick reporting.
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women for freedom. The US Ambassador of the country says there are a few nations who are
slowing down the battle of the sexes. Ttiere are some Islamic countries who disagree vvith showing
videos for sex education for girls. The UN women's conference found that more than half of the
women in. the world are victims of domestic violence. 04.05
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Glance I Wade Medlock. > Wayne Gretzky get an honorary degree from the
University of Alberta in Canada. V; Clip of Gretzky. >Virginia's City Council may decide to put Sally
Hennings on a street sign. > The UN will hold a conference on women's issues. > Leslie Van Houten
will get a parole hearing Tuesday. V; Clip of Van H9uten. > 0-Day Anniversary is Tuesday. V; P-Day
highlights. >Ernesto Zerdio will meet with President Clinton Friday. V; Clip of Zerdio. 11.50.
10.04 Week At
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CNN International Cable National
06/06/2000 12:00 -12:30 am
11.59 Women's Rights. Women's Rights Activists say they are pressing ahead in their fight across the
world: The UN is hosting a global women's conference aimed at picking up from a 1995 conference
·in Beijing left off. V; Scenes from the United Nations. SB;. Unnamed woman, says hail the
women's movement. I; Maria Romero, Mexico Non(?), says there are still a lotthat needs to be
dcine. GR; Violence Against Women. SB; f<ofi Annan, UN Secretary (?), says trafficking of women
has now become world wide. V; Hillary Rod ham Clinton. I; Hillary Clinton, US Senate Candidate,
says he have to acknowledge the benefits of globalization have not reached all people including the
US. SB; Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, US Army, says what we do for women will help the entire
society of any given country. Richard Roth reporting from The United Nations. 14.33
29.
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06/05/2000 12:00 "'1:00pm
00.01 T; Women conference. Facelift. Christine Lahti. 00.25
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05/30/2000 8:00-9:00 am
19.00 TZ; Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda is trying to reduce· the number of teen pregnancies in Georgia.
Fonda just came back from a trip to Nigeria. Sl; Jane Fonda, "Generation 2000", says that five years
ago the U.N. ·held a conference to improve the liv'es of women and girls, Fonda went to the
International Women's Health Coalition. V; Fonda· in Nigeria. There are problems in Nigeria with ·
·women not talking about sex. The World Health Organization shows that giving age appropriate
information ?bout sexuality to young people makes them postpone when they will be sexual active or
to engage in safe sex. Fonda will show the document to the United Nations that she made in Nigeria.
"Golden Pond" and "China Syndrome" are good movies. Fonda does not want to act right now. 25.00
34. · NBC Nightly News
NBC Network National
06/05/2000 6:30.-7:00 pm
04.35 Equality for Women. At the United Nations, another push for equality for all women. Today the
U..N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan, said progress has been made but much remains to be done
about violence toward women. V; Kofi Annan. 04.56
24.45 The Class of 2ooo. The thousands of men and women in New Orleans for this 0-Day dedication
have seen so much change in their lives from the great depression to WWII. The space age, the end
of communism and now they're wit~ess to another phenomenon. The historic economic opportunities
·for their grandchildren. V; Graduation at the University of Maryland. I; Christopher Ross,
. Graduate/Grandson, talking about the economy. I; Bob Richards, Christopher's Grandfather, talking
·about the economy. Anne Thompson reporting. 28.04
35.
Morning Edition
NPR Radio National
06/05/2000 6:00 -7:00am
35.31 United Nations. The United Nations is holding a special summit this week about women.
They're discussing a new study that makes the case that educating girls and giving women equal right
is one of the ways to make poor countries grow. I; Elizabeth King, says that up to 100 million women
are not alive because girls may b.e)iborted, killed after birth or dehied food ·or medicil')e because boys
are wanted more. She says that women have to work more than men, but women get little access to
supplies that could help them b~more pr.oductiye. I; Nancy Birdsaul, says that educated mothers have
fewer and more educated chil~ren. Kathleen Shulck Reporting. 39.09
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12.49 TZ; Business News. >Stock market report. >Lockheed Martin IMS will close its software .
development center in Metairie in September. >General Motors has launched a new website called
gm.tickettoride.coni. V; General Motors Website. >Microsoft is denying a report that British
Co"lumbia is trying to get Microsoft's headquarters moved to Canada.. V; Microsoft Headquarters.
>Crude oil prices rose yesterday.
>Women from around the w6rld have gathered in New York to
measure the progress made concerning violence against women. V; Battered Women. I; Charlotte
Bunch, Rutgers, said women have a lot to say concerning women's rights. V; United Nations. V;
Pakistan. V; The Vatican. V; Pope John Paul II. I; Sec. Gen. Pierre Sane, Amnesty International,
talked about discriminatory practices against women. I; Theo-Ben Giurab, UN General Assembly,
talked about political. will. V; Classroom. I; Mary Robinson, Human Rights Commission, talked about
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fe~tival about women at the UN Women's Conference at t_he US Customs House; Rosemary
Clooney, Gabriel Byrne and Sinead Cusack ata celebration of Irish entertainment presented by the
Irish Repertory Theater at the Broadhurst Theater. > TZ; events which occurred today in history. 19.00
41.
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06/05/2000 12:00.- 1 :00 pm ·
23.00 Focus. UN Conference on 3rd. world women in slavery.. 25.00
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06/05/2ooo 4:00.~ 5:oopm ·
42.00 First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the U.N. Conference on Women today SB;
Hillary says women's rights are human rights. 43.00 ·
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05/31/2000 1o:oo -12:00 am
06.00. nie Joan Hamburg Show. Joan says that Deidre Hall of "Days of Our Lives" will be popping in.,
Later, she'll be joined by a panel of women from "Women From Bejing" to talks about women's roles
in society today. Talks about an article from t~e Food Section of the NY Times called "Who Put the
Beet in the Muselline" by Marion' Burroughs,in which Joan was quoted. Talks about going to Blue Hill
Restaurant and actually enjoyi'ng the beet ravioli. Also talks about a wonderful recipe for skirt steak in
Mark Bitman's column. Talks about NY Post artic(e on single moms. Says that in Japari, the company
that makes Power Ranger amd Tomagotchi toys are paying parents to have babies. 11.27
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WWOR-AM 710 (ABC) Radio New York
06/02/2000 10:00- ~:00 pm
31.50 More with Perri Peltz. She talks about the internet related, consumer oriented CNN.com. She
and ·Jgan discuss her panel discussion with "Women of Bejing" concerning internet
communication. Perri talks about being a working mother. 42.15
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43.20
ABC News cut in with Anderson Cooper: > R; President Clinton makes case for US antiballistic missile system before Russian Parliament .. the first time a US president has spoken there.
43.31 > R; Powerful earthquake rocks Sumatra. 43.36 > R;· Attorney for Baltimore Ravens linebacker
Ray Lewis says murder charges will be dropped in exchange for testimony against two others
charged with. two murders in Atlanta after Super Bowl. 43:48 > National Commission on Terrorism is
due to release controversial recommendations today. V; bombing aftermath scenes. The
independent panel was created by Congress after 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa.
Recommendations include tracking foreign students in US and making it easier for ~lA to recruit
informants with questionable backgrounds. Critics say steps would severely damage civil liberties.
44.10 ABC News data bank: > R; US Supreme Court scheduled to hand down rulings. 44.17 > R;
First Lady Hillary Clinton is keynote speaker at UN in New York at forum on status ·of women
worldwide. 44.24 > R; Report from Sierra Club on' how to preserve wetlands and reduce flood threat.
44.28 > . R; Little Orphan Annie for new millennium makes debut in newspapers. 44.34 > Student
paralyzed two years ago when classmate opened fire in school graduates in Paducah, Kentucky. V;
scenes of girl at graduation. 45.04
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to meet with leaders in the Middle East. 01.30' >Congress posed to debate the agriculture funding bill
and the elimination of estate taxes. 02.35 >New Jersey voters to elect candidates for U.S. Senate
races today. 03.35 > Earthquake shakes the capital of Turkey this morning. 04.00 >Supreme Court
overrules Washington state's grandparents'·visitation rights. 04.55 > U.S. delegation to the U. N,
conference on global equality for women say the Vatican and some countries are favoring the status
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06/05/2000
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00.20.05 TZ; Across America. > Supreme Court Struck down law that allowed grandparents to force
visits of grandparents against p~rent's wishes. V; Grandparents with kids. > In Florida, inmate in Sex
offender prison got away in a helicopter. V ; Cras.hed helicopter. > Baltimore Ravens Football Star
Ray Lewis pleaded guilty to a .misdemeanor and.will not_face murder charges V; Ray Lewis. > In
New York, at the United Nations, women gathered to disc'uss the plight of the world's women. V; ·
Scenes at the UN. 00.21.45
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06/03/2000
10:00 -10:.30 pm
00.02.25 National Stories. > Ramseys claim psychic saw JonBenet's killer. V; Sketch on the
Ramsey's website of description of killer Ramsey's Say a dead psychic gave them. > UN
Conference determine 50% of the Worlds women are affected by violence. V; Unicef report. 00.03.14
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development has been going on· for
According to a survev of 1.500 Ameri~an wo'men and 701'men,
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1 whose leaders have often been reltichealth, poverty and h~man rights i~. foreign policy. Below,·
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this list, said Donna Shalala, the sec~ for international involvement was
· retary.of health and human services, responsibility to future generations.
who· has been leading the United Protecting the world's environment
States delegation here at the special was considered important to women.
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Assembly session, called to measure
progress on women's rights since the verv similar views on America's role
prio~ities~ Fourth International Conference on in the world: ju.st over half of each
women, held in Beijing in 1995.
group polled said the United States
"Foreign policy requires a new should be a "good neighbor" to other
conceptualization," Ms. Shalala said nat.ions. Only 4 percel'!t of women an?.
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in an iliterview today. "It is no longer 5 percent of men want to see Amen·-::'the pOll, conducted by Belden Rus- as narrow as .defined by the litera- cans be global policemen.
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international security issue, they . fundamentally at· variance with
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other polls generally indicate.
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"Infectious diseases destabilize
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They take the public health infra- be as a global citizen," she said. "The
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structure apart. The world has differences between women and men
at school gets inoculated for TB be- .. changed out there. Ifwe look at mar- are not significant. What is different
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rights, a new poll has· found. The
independent survey was released
this week to coincide with a special
General Assembly session on the
progress of the world's women.
These interests, the survey found,
make women marginally stronger
supporters of diplomacy and cooperation in international organizations,
while men are more likely to favor
military solutions or put a higher
pr:iority on trade.
"".What this poll tells us is that
im1erican women understand that
the''well-being of themselves, their
families and communities are inereasingly intimately connected with
the, well-being and stability of other
coUntries," said Joan Dunlop, a fellow at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
and director of the Women's Lens on
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understand that theyha:ve the rightto say no," Noeleen Heyzer, executive director qfthe U.N. . ·
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conference.
"After Beijing, we were able to launch all these campaigns and put them into action. We realized
how important it was to include men," she sa~d.
The U.N. Development Fund for Women has recently launched several projects addressing men and
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women's issues may be more difficult.
Michael Kaufm~, international director of the White Ribbon Campaign, says one way is to launch
positive campaigns for men. Kaufman's Canada-based group urges men to wear a white ribbon as a .
"public pledge never to commit violence against women, never to condone it, and never to remain
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around the world must overcome, from unequal pay to a lack ofpolitical representation to, at times, ·
·· their own lack of self-confidence. But while such problems seemingly carry with them a specific ·
prescription, leaders say the overall agenda of "empowering women" will require a shift in society's
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it up: "We have to make the case that economies cannot thrive without women as full partners."
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Women in 1995 in Beijing, where governments from around the world outlined proposals to
improve the lives ofwomen.
Since the~~ some progress has been made in the UnitedStates. The Washington, D.C.-based Center
for Policy Alternatives released a report Tuesday lauding recent efforts at the state levelto expand
the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act, to introduce equal pay legislation and to finance "microenterprise" programs for low-income women and those coming off the welfare rolls.
Political and civ.ic action at the state level has been "the fuel for American women's economic
progress," the report said:
More than two-thirds of states have introduced some form of equal pay legislation and more than a
third of all state legislatures are in the midst of paid family leave debates, according to the report.
More than half the states have set up savings mechanisms to· fund micro..:enterprise programs, which
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matters related to their sexuality and childbearing. A key point is the recognition women's rights are··· _human rights-- and women are entitled to be free fr()m violence.
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UNITED NATIONS-- The smuggling ofwomeh and chlldren amounts to "slavery" and Canada is
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for the first time in a UN document that women have the right to decide freely all matters related to
their sexuality and childbearing. A key point is the recognition that women's rights are human rights,
and that women are entitled to be free from violence.
Ms. Fry urged the current conference to build on the "tenuousgains" made.in.the past five years. To
lose those gains would amount to an injustice to women around the world and a move backward in
the "shared goals of economic and so~ialdevelopment, peace. and human security," she said.
Women represent 52 per cent of Canada's population, Ms. Fry said, adding that the federal
government has taken steps to advance the Beijing plan. The year 2000 also marks the 30th
anniversary of the report of the Royal Co:mriJ.ission on the Status of Women, which recognizes
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In human rights, the grade was C+. The lackluster ranking was prompted in large part by the
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But another reason was an issue. that ·"people in the U.S. don't like to talk about," said Sinha-- child
prostitution and the sale ofwomen as sex'partners.
"That was one of the issues we focused on in Beijing but it hasn't gone very far," said Sinha.
Typically called "trafficking," bartering of women and girls in the sex trade has increased in recent
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"As we are on the demand side of this problem, we need to stop it here," said Shiffinan.
Dozens of U.S. "travel" companies offer packag~· deals for men to trafficking hot spots.-- particularly
the Philippines and Thailand. Trafficking in girls and woll1en is an international multibillion dollar .
industry, according to Equality Now officials .. The organization's studies show that male customers
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purpose of engaging in sex with minors.
"It's a trans-national crime," said Anita Botti, a native·oflrwin who now chairs the U.S. Interagency
Task Force on Trafficking in Women and Children. ·
Trafficking "is a human rights issue, economics, education. It's a corruption issue and a health
issue," said Botti. The U.S. needs to lead the way in criminalizing trafficking, she said, because
countries worldwide take their cue froin Americans.
Blinn, who has studied child prostitution in southern Thailand, noted that any tourist there can see "a
lot of European and American white men with young Thai women in their arms."
The reason is economic, Blinn said .. "In striving to achieve a competitive advantage in the
marketplace, the Thai government has made it possible for businesses to pay really low wages. A
woman can make 25 times more inoney by being a prostitute."
However, since the Beijing conference five years ago, Kindervatter said, some progress has been
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made iri preventing trafficking and child prostitution.
·"Five years ago it wasn't on most governments' radar screens," she said. Now, the State Department·
has developed a separate office to look at the. issue, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has
made it a topic of conversation in her meeting with world leaders.
Although trafficking and ratification of CEDAW are at the top of the human rights agenda, other
issues being discussed at "Beijing+ 5" include:
*Female genital mutilation. The circumcision-like procedure has been banned in some countries
including Egypt after much debate. Still, millions of women undergo·the procedure each year
because religious or ethnic custom dictate that they should not experience sexual enjoyment.
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As the U.N. Special Session, Women 2000, continuesits weeklong look at progress siiice the 1995
· Beijing World Conference on Women, a survey the Aspen Institute commissioned has found that
Americanwomen are more likely than men to frame their foreign policy concerns·around global .
social issues like health, poverty and human rights. Here is a sampling of reaction to that survey and ·
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"What this [Aspen] poll tells us is that American women understand that the well-being of
themselves, their families and communities are increasingly intimately connected with the well-'
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literature as well as by the foreign policy professionals .. and they're .resisting. When
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"The issue we are dealing with right now is whether or not these governments are going to recognize
that both the [AIDS] epidemic and trafficking [in women] are driven by men's demands for sex. If
.we're going to deal with that issue, we have _to deal with both ends of the equation; namely, we have
to recommit ourselves, as we did in B.eijing, to recognizing women's sexual rights and men's ·
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UNITED NATIONS (CP)-: Canad_a has made "slow but steady progress" toward gender equality but
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Hedy Fry, secretary of state for t)le status of women, spoke at the so-called "Beijing Plus Five" .
conference which is reviewing progress since 1995, when. a platform adopted in Beijing stated·
women have the right to decide freely all matters related to their sexuality'and childbearing.
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On the international level, Canada has worked to counter human smuggling, which targets mostly
women and youth. Canada considers it.a fomi of slavery and a denial of human rights.
Conference participants identified trafficking of women and the devastating impact of-AIDS on
· women among the most pressing new challenges. ·
Ottawa has been hindered by "many societal and systematic barriers," Fry said.
Poverty is a major obstacle preventing gender equality among aboriginal, immigrant and disabled
women. It also can be devastating to female single parents,· she said.
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The Philippine delegation moved to drop the word,"forced" so that all prostitution was labeled as an
exploitative abuse. At thatpoint, delegates said, Ms. Kotokjumped up and moved to strike any
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"I suggested dropping this entire phrase," she said. "We were just trying to dean it up. That. was a
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using the phrase ."forceclprostitlition" rathcer than simply "prostitution," thus placing women in the
position ofhavi~g to prove whether their prostitution was coerced or not.
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Council on Women, whose honorary chailli!an is first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the reports said.
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administration wants to have modified, meaning the two sections have not been agreed to and a:re
still under discussion.
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a:re dealing with," said T. Malek-Ebrahimi, a delegate for Islamic Women Institute oflran, an NGO
group.
The U.S. words referring only to pornographic materials are diluting the actual language because it
does notencompass filmmakers who exploit women and children in making pornographic movies,
or other aspects of the pornography trade, she said.
Pornography is the whole institution: fil~akers, magazines, sex shops and so forth. Pornographic
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"We thought it made more sense. We thought 'pornographic materials' was more appropriate," she
said.
E.J. Suh, a University of Illinois college student representing World Youth Alliance, a major youth
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Wu arrived here Sunday, heading a delegation which for the first time includes officials' from Hong
Kong and Macao since they returned respectively to China's sovereignty in 1997 and 1999;
The Chinese official put forward a four.,point proposal which calls for efforts to stop war and arined
conflict, eliminate women' s poverty, ensure women's full participation in the economic
globalization process and promote the role of the UN system.
"Women are the most'vulnerable and biggest victims in war and armed conflicts. Only when wars
and armed conflicts are rooted out can women's.cause inove forward,".she said.
She called on all countries to strictly abide by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and the
basic principles of international law, work to resolve international disputes by peaceful means and
firmly uphold the leading role of the UN for international peace and security.
Wu Yi believed that the significance of poverty elimination to' the.deyelopment ofwomen should be
fully recognized and priority should be given to promoting economic and social development and
eliminating poverty among women in the effort to raise their status.
"Developed countries and relevant international institutions should faithfully fulfil their obligations
in this regard, II she Se~d without elaboration.
The Chinese official urged for serious efforts to study the negative impact of economic globalization
on women's development as well as effective measures to prevent women, particularly those. in
developing countries, from being marginalized in the process.
"Economic globalization both affords opportunities arid presents severe challenges to the cause of
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He ope~ed a week-long conference of more than 180 governments and 10,000 activists in New York
Monday to evaluate progress toward sexual equalitysince a 1995. landmark international women's .
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Minister Dalia Itzik was to tell the UN yesterday at the opening of a special session of the General
Assembly on the status and welfare of women.
Many delegations, including the Israeli, "will tell of us pf the enlightened and advanced laws
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More than 10,000 women and women's advocates, representing 189 nations, were scheduled to
attend the UN conference, whose theme is "Women 2000: Gender ~quality, Development, and
Peace for the 21st Century." It is intended to measure progress in advancing the rights ofwomen in
- the five years· since the adoption of a "women's ·platform" at the 1995 UN conference in Beijing.
There were conflicting Israeli reports on the status of women due to be presented yesterday. There
was an official government report, under the auspices of the Prime Minister's Office; one from the
Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women, and one from the Israel Women's
Network.
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The Knesset report called the image ofwomen's equality in Israel "somewhat misl~ading."Although
the Proclamation oflndependence speaks of the equality of the sexes, this principle does not appear
in any of the basic laws. "The reason for this failure is the basic umesolvedsecular-religious debate
in the country regarding the issue of religion and state," the Knesset report said.
The delegation - which includes Israeli officials and heads of voluntary women's organizations dismissed any suggestion ofdiscord, essentially saying that each has its own view from its own
perspective.
It was widely expected that there would be some discussion of the Knesset bill that would sentence
women to seven years in prison for reading from the Torah at th&.Western Wall.
However, this year's conference is considered politically tame for Israel, unlike those in years past
where the events were platforms for anti-Israel venom. It was at the 1975 women's conference in
Mexico City? for instance, thatthe Zionism is racism resolution first surfaced.
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years," said Goertzen, who was a delegate for Magee at the Beijing conference.
The billions of dollars spent nationally translates into several million dollars in federal, state and
private investments at major medical institutions in Western Pennsylvania, inCluding UPM;C Health
System (with which Magee is affiliated), and Allegheny General and the Western Pennsylvania
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Preventive health research on heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis, obesity, diabetes and aging
was just a part of an estimated $ 51.4 billion in federal money spent on women's health issues in
fiscal1999. As part of its effort, the U.S. Department ofHealth and Human 'Services setup 18
National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health as models for women's health care.
With the United States experiencing an aging population -- one in five women are 60 and ·older -- the
Medicare program has become key in providing preventive care, including vaccinations,
mammography, colorectal cancer screening, Pap smears and bone density measurement.
"There has been a heightened awareness of prevention in the past five years," said Dr. Peter Z.
Cohen, an orthopedic surgeon who is director of the senior sports and fitness program at UPMC.
"Not only are physicians more aware of the importance of helping patients, but the public has
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Because .ofthese efforts;Go~rtzen does not agree with the group U.S. Women Connect, which gave
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As the U.N: Special s'ess~on, Women 2000~ ·began its weeklong. look at progress since the 1995.
Beijing World Conference on Women, the United Nations is-sued a report on trends an:d statistics ,
charting global gains and setbacks in the effort. Here is a sampling of reaction to the conference and
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"We come here because for all of the progress we can point to, our work is far from done. When
girls are doused with gasoline, set on fire and buriu:id to death because their mamage dowries are too
small and when 'honor killings' continue to be tolerate~, our work is far from done."
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"There must be no going back on the commitments, The wlioie platform of action must not only be
maintained but must [also] be reinvigorated and given practical impetus around the-world."
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The report findi~gs <ll"e "cause for concern .... You just tan't leave out one haJfof the world's ·
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--Angela E.V. King, assi~tant secretary_-general and special adviser on gender issues
"We want 100 percent equality for women. If governn1ents don't have equality in law, you have no
recourse. If governments don't recognize that women have equal rights as human beings, then where
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"Governments must be:,~illing to put significant resources into changing this situation. They must be
willing to put resources into the education of girls, training women for public life, and changes in
attitudes have to accompany that. If really [requires] an investment in women."
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Clinton seems to enjoy being primp~d f~r the,photos. But by the time we sit down to talk, she
. appears tired and a little wary. Her style is elegant, tailored and simple. B;er neatly manicured nails
are coated with clear polish, and the only jewelry she wears is a thickly braided gold-and-diamond
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World. Conference on Women. Held in Beijing, China, in September 1995, the event drew thousands
of women from dozens of countries around the world and produced the Platform for Action, a strong
policy statement demanding equal rights for women in economic, social; political and legaliriatters.
From June 5 thiough June 9, the United Nations will hold a special session· of the General Assembly
to review the progress that's been made since the conference and mark "Beijing Plus Five." As First
Lady; Clinton has tniveled ·widely overseas, providing support to thousands of women stniggling_t9
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countries where laws'and attitudes have changed, from Asia to LatinAnierica. When! first went to
Senegal, I went to a village that was working very hard with a nonprofit organization to end the ·
practice of female genital. [mutilation]. They voted in the village to ban .i~, overturning this centuriesold tradition. And theysent out people from their village to talk with·people in other villages. They
persuaded the president of Senegal to denounce the practice, and later it was made illegaL It was all
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HRC: At the same time we tell gifts they can do anything and be anything, we tell them, "You'd
better be really thin. And you'd better be tall. And you'd better be super organized so you can do a
million things at once." We give all of these messages that undermine individuality, instead of
saying, "Be the best person you can be." In a lot of advanced economies, girls are getting trapped in
different kinds of mind-sets. They can go to the greatest schools in the world ahd get job's in the
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HRC: In my book It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, I described what I
think are the basic rules of child rearing: Provide the right balance of discipline and love and
guidance. Be authoritative and not authoritarian. And invest time in your child. It's really oldfashioned stuff.
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HRC: I'll probably be connected with a foundation or academic institution in some w.ay. I'll support·
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working people and putting more teachers into the classroom to lower class size in our public
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We ~ave been going through twenty-fiveyears of marriage, finding gifts that were given tous when
we were first married. There were a lot of old pictures we hadn't seen for a while, a lot of knick- . . .
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everything in. We've accumulated a lot of things. We're both pack rats.
As our conversation ends, Clinton suddenly asks.me my newborn <:laughter's nam.e. She's just spoken
. by phone to twenty7year-old Chelsea, who was in India accompanying her father on a tour of. ··"
Southeast Asia. "You won't believe how fast[ childhood] goes," she telkme sadly."Each stage is
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UNITED NATIONS, June 7- Five
years after thousands of women con- ·
verged on Beijing to draft what
amounted to a bill of . rights for
women, government officials and
women's organizations are huddled
again in conference halls here, trying
to turn those promises into concrete
prescriptions for action.
By today, midway through the process, some cultural confrontations
had kicked in.
When familiar tension5 between
Western delegations and conservatives led by the Vatican and supported by Catholic and Muslim nations
threatened to reopen battles over
abortion and family relationships,
Suzanne Mubarak was dismayed.
Egypt's first lady, who has worked to
advance the rights of women against
the background of Islamic militancy,
warned in an interview today that
such battles risk provoking a backlash that can actually impede
progress.
··we don't need to be pulled into all
these controversies," said Mrs. Mubarak. who is leading the Egyptian
delegation. "We have too many problems as it is. This makes people who
are not extremists become ones."
Egypt has been viewed as a pivotal
country on women's rights since the
1994 international conference on population in Cairo, which put individual
women, not governments, at the center of family planning and demanded
that they be given the tools to determine their own reproductive lives.
At the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the chairwoman was an Egyptian. Mervat
Tallawy, a diplomat who is now a
government minister. Since the Cairo and Beijing conferences, Egypt
has outlawed genital cutting of girls
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established, which leads brainstorming sessions on such issues as how to
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this carefully, without combative
claims of absolute equality, and that
she believes they will have to continue this way. It is an argument heard
frequently from nations on the edge
of cultural conflagration.
But at the same time, she said,
women have to speak against false
notions of Islam promoted by extremists who would deny girls an
education or their mothers jobs.
''If you look at the history, even the
wife of the Prophet was a brave
woman," Mrs. Mubarak said. "She
was a businesswoman. So don't come
and tell me women can't go to work,
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mother and who· married Hosni Mubarak, an air force officer who is now
Egypt's president, when she was 17,
decided after her two sons were in
school "that there was something
more I should do in my life." She
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in Cairo, where she received a B.A. in
political science and an M.A. in
sociology. "My husband supported
me," she said. "He said, O.K., try it
out. See if you can do it, but on one
condition: not at the expense of the
boys."
She now urges other privileged
women, many of whom she describes
as "apolitical and apathetic" to do
more for themselves and other
Eeyptian women through civic organizations that are springing up
around the country. Some of these
owe their inceptions to United Nations conferences, she said. ·
''In these international conferences, I think we have come a long
way both on the national and international level in bringing women's issues to the forefront," she said.
Charlotte Bunch, who directs the
Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, agrees
with Mrs. Mubarak that even with
disagreements, the value of a meeting like this one should not be discounted. "Proposals and ideas are
being exchanged," Ms. Bunch said
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finished because rich Western states are attempting to spread "immorality" to the developing world
in a new kind of "sexual colonialism."
Mary Ellen. Glynn, spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, said the United States
believes access to family planning and reproductive health information will lead to fewer abortions
in the world "which we support."
She noted the Beijing platform recognized for the first time that human rights include the right of
women to control their own sexuality without "coercion, discrimination and violence."
"The U.S. believes that the definition of sexual rights is consistent with that language," she said.
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"If we want to ensure women have a place at the table, we need to make sure they join the ranks of
not only the technically literate, but the technically elite," Christine Hemrick, a Cisco vice president,
told the group.
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Internet access alone is not enough, the speakers cautioned. In many parts of the world, social
customs may make it difficult for women to assume or keep a leadership role.
Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, recalled how efforts three decades
ago to share advanced agricultural technology with poor countries ended up in the hands of men, not
women.
"It seems to me that new technologies are a chance for women to close the gap in the Third World,
but there's also a danger. Who's going to control the mouse?" he said.
Murison, the United Nations staffer, described a situation where an African businesswoman lost her
successful e-commerce business when the village elders decided to take it over.
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could make things better," she said. "But it's not greater than social structure. Those problems have
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BYLINE: Minh T: Yo, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
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A river of brilliant saris, tailored suits, tunic dresses, and shawls flows through the corridors. The
subjects of discussion are dark, and often dire. "Honor" killings. Rape. Domestic violence. Forced
marriage. Dismal pay.
But the confidence and energy exuded by some 10,000 women gathered at the UN this week is
palpable.
They have come from 180 nations to assess womankind's progress since a similar landmark
conference in Beijing five years ago.
A thumbnail scorecard shows that awareness of such problems as violence against women has grown
considerably since 1985. Many governments worldwide have revised their legal codes to treat
women more equitably. All South Asian governments, for instance, have set up commissions to look
into gender crimes and inequality. Yesterday, the European Union's executive commission called for
stiffer laws to end sexual harassment in the workplace.
"These [commissions] have become a very. big lobbying tool for NGOs and a pressure point for
governments," says Ruchira Gupta, who runs the nonprofit On Our Own in India. "It's a very big
step forward." But, she adds, these commissions lack teeth.
Indeed, while signs of progress are evident, there are also indications of new problems.
"As we are moving forward, we are also losing ground. There's more violence appearing in many
countries. And in situations of war, viol.ence against women has increased," says Noeleen Heyzer,
the executive director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women·(UNIFEM).
Human rights activists point out that, in this era of civil wars and ethnic conflicts, combatants
increasingly rape women as part of their terror campaigns.
In India, so-called dowry deaths have increased in the past five years. And around the world, 1
woman in 3 is beaten, coerced into sex, or abused during her lifetime, usually by someone she
knows, according to a Johns Hopkins :School of Public Health study.
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economic side of life is extremely important to get people out of a.violent situation," says Heyzer.
"It's in the [mix] of vulnerability and powerlessness and a strong patriarchal society that you find the
kind of violence such as dowry death and honor killing."
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Ms. JANICE KEELEY: I was kind of naive.
HAYES: (VO) In the late 1970s, Janice Keeley was the classic young career woman on her way to a
management job. But as her family grew, her outlook changed. Three children needed her time. So
did her mother-in-law who now lives with them. Janice and her husband have cut expenses so she
could work part-time.
Ms. KEELEY: I can't imagine putting in 60-hour weeks and trying to raise my children and taking
care of my mother-in-law. I couldn't do it.
HAYES: Today there are millions of women at the same point in life: juggling career, children,
caring for their parents. And more and more are saying, they wish they could cut back at work. ·
(YO) If they could afford it, one study shows one-third of American women would work just part.,.
time. Nearly as many would stay home, care for their family. More would even prefer volunteer
work to a full-time career. Time on the job for many is taking too much away from family,
community.
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Mr. BENJAMIN HUNNICUTT (Work Historian): I think women more than any other group in this
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EVELYN LEOPOLD
Reuters News Agency
Monday, June 5, 2000
United Nations -- Five years after a massive global
women's conference in Beijing, more than 180
nations meet today in an uphill effort to jump-start
ambitious programs to help women achieve full
equality.
· · · · ··
At the same time, at least 10,000 women of all ages
and nationalities will hold parallel events in a quest
to rejuvenate the loose global women's movement
that drew about 30,000 activists to China.
Ministers and celebrities from around the world
intend to have their views heard on a variety of
topics, with Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking today
about the use of small loans to help poor women set
up enterprises.
As it was in Beijing, the key issues dividing
governments are the lack of resources flowing to
impoverished nations and conservative stands on
lifestyles and sexual issues held by some Islamic
nations and the Vatican.
"There are a few countries trying to stand in the way
of progress, but they are very few and far between,"
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But equal access to health care and education
depend on whether there is any money for social
services in the first place, said Noeleen Heyzer,
executive director of the UN Development Fund for
Women.
"In times of economic transition, when state-run
businesses privatize and a market economy is
ushered in, women and girls often pay the price,"
Dr. Heyzer said.
The 1995 Beijing action platform includes nearly
every issue in the world. It maintains that women's
rights are human rights, that poverty affects women
disproportionately and that rape is a war crime. It
also states that women have the right to decide
freely how often they have children and issues
relating to their sexuality.
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It set timetables for abolishing laws that
discriminate against women, increasing the number
of women' in public life and providing a basic
education for girls.
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BY THE NUMBERS
Fewer women die in childbirth than,ever before. But
an African woman's risk of dying from pregnancyrelated causes is 1 in 16; in Asia it is 1 in 65; in
Europe, 1 in 1,400.
In 2000, there were only nine female heads of state
or government. Women represent only 11 per cent
of parliamentarians worldwide, except for the
Nordic countries and the Netherlands, which have
more than a third.
Women comprise at least one-third of the labour
force in all regions except northern Africa and
western Asia, but they are concentrated in a few
occupations and receive less pay than men.
Nearly two-thirds of the world's illiterate people are
women, especially older ones.
The gender gap is closing in primary and secondary
schools, particularly in Latin America, but is still
wide in 22 African and nine Asian countries where
enrolment for girls is less than 80 per cent of the
enrolment for boys. Source: UN Statistic Division
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18.00 TZ; A Closer Look Women & Power. > They are taking a closer look at women 2000. The
.international V)'Omen's conference in NY may be an empowering experience for women. The word
power keeps on coming up In the US, the path to corporate power has almost always been thru the
old boys network, women have been forced to seek a different route, and some of them have. V;
CarlyFiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard. GR; Cover of Fortune Magazine with Fiorina on it. GR;
Cover of Forbes Magazine with Fior.ina on it. GR; Cover of Business Week Magazine with Fiorina on
it. GR; Women and Power. Women are starting 2/3rds of all businesses. I; Catherine Muther,
Founder, Women's Technology Cluster, former Cisco executive, says you need referrals I; Gina
Johnson, Internet Entrepreneur, says they go out to investors now and they are pre-screened. V;
Exterior of Animal Spirit. V; Interior of Animal Spirit. V; Interior of Center for Women and Enterprise.
I; Melissa Warren, Owner, Animal Spirit, says she knew she was going to do it from talking to Center
for Women and Enterprise on the phone. I; Andrea Silbert, Center for Women & Enterprise, says they
say to women that you don't need to have a masters of business administration, just a three month
class. V; Girl Scouts of America group. V; Girls Inc. group. I; Unidentified Girl Scout, says they
really help you understand how money works. I; Jamila Ponton, Girls Inc. says they want to make
sure that they have JUSt as much knowledge as the boys do. Betsy Stark reporting > In many areas,
this 1s what women from 187 countries are doing at the women's conference in NY There is long
sought power for women in Egypt. GR; Map V; Newlyweds in Cairo. V; Wol!len that were
abandoned. Women had to prove abuse. Under the new law, women no longer have to prove
anything I; Mona Zulfikar, Egyptian National Council of Women, says some of the arguments were
women are emotional, they are going to break their homes. Gillian Findlay reporting. > R; Sweden is
the only country in the world where in gov't, more than half the cabinet members are women. 23.50
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34 34 TZ; UN Women's Conference GR; Progress of the World's Women, since Bejing?, 5 years
ago, 60 countries set out and change the1r laws for women. I; A lot to do in practice. GR;
Violence Against Women 20 to 50% of women have experienced comestic violence. In the last 5
years is trafficking of women increased. I; Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, trafficking of women
dating back to Biblical times have now become a world wide plague. V; Hillary Clinton, a star
attraction in China, is not a political candidate. Issues of poverty around the world, 70% are women
who live in poverty I, Hillary, Globlization, no, I mean Marginilization, we have to acknowledge that
globlization have noi reached around the world, not even in my own country. Lt. Gen C Kennedy,
US Army accused a fellow officer of sexual harassment, what we do for girls and women, helps the
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00.01 T; Women conference. Supreme Court ruling. Hand bags. 00.28
11.31 T; Post pardum depression Women conference. 11.42
15.26 TZ; Women Conference. All week, there is a conference for the women of the UN being hel.d
in New York. The conference is a follow-up for the one that was held in Beijing, China. I; Queen
Noor, Jordan, says women and men need to work together in order to make any progress in their
family She also says it's important that the women need to voice in. I; Mary Robinson, UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, says there are many differences of women in different countries. V;
Various children. I; Gertrude Mongella, former secretary of the UN World Conference on Women,
says it seems that women are looking for work and wants to make a living to help with the
development in the life they live. I; Dr Jane Smith, President & CEO of National Council of Negro
Women, says African women have been 1n more power than ever, because of the small bus messes
that they have been running. I, Congressman Joseph Crowley, New York, says women in other
countries have come a long way in 5 years as far as living is concerned. I; Congresswoman Barbara
· Lee, California, says women must be empowered so that things can be taken care of right for the
ways of living. I; Judy Collins, singer, says women have to work for everyone's rights 20.34
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women have come a long way with1n 5 years, as well as some issues that need to be taken care of,
such as domestic.v1olence. This is a great problem that even the women in the US have to look out
for. There are even women who are looking out for their own employees I; Colleen Mardilen,
boyfriend abused her, says when she changed her home phone number, her ex-boyfriend started
calling her at work. Colleen's boyfriend often made threatening calls. SB; Call from Colleen's
boyfriend. Colleen says there were t1mes when she just wanted to quit I; Donna Norton, family
violence, says there are often times that a batterer will come to the workplace to torment the victim.
GR; Domestic Violence costs. Businesses and the government is trying to prevent the problem from
gomg on. V; Motorola phone I; Rebecca Jones, Verizon Wireless, says the violence is happening in
the society, so it's happening in the workplace, as well. I; Stanley Dilley, CEO of Software Completion,
says they supported Colleen, because she is a valuable employee and stie was under threats.
Deborah Amos reporting > FOr more information, people can go to lifetimetv.com GR; lifetimetv.com.
23.25
58.51 Dana says Deborah has gone to the UN Women Conference to interview Donna Shalala.
59.09
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06/06/2000 10:00 -12:00 pm
>US. worker production figures rose again in May 02.00 >President Clinton to meet with Yasser
Arafat again next week at the White House. 02.35 >U.N. conference on global equality fm women
continues today in New York 03.30 > Strong earthquake shakes the Turkish capital c1ty of Ankurah.
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