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Article: U.N. conference may attract 20,000 women to China in 1995. (United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women) (Column)
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- June 17, 1994
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Women around the globe are planning for the Fourth World Conference of Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, to be convened by the United Nations Sept. 4-15, 1995, in Beijing, China.
Wait a minute -- travel to Beijing for women's rights?
Pictures flash before my mind. Of Tiananmen Square just five years ago. Of the torture instruments smuggled out of Tibet that Amnesty International displayed in the National Press Club, proof of the persistence of torture in China and Tibet. Of President Clinton's decision to renew China's most-favored-nation trade status over loud protests from human rights activists. Of dissidents still in prison.
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