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| This piece was created in response to the UN Fourth World
Conference on Women held in China in 1995.
Components = mandarin flash cards, clock pieces, balloon, straw, jade butterfly, ink on paper. The text reads: BEIJING DECLARATION 1.
We, the Governments participating in the Fourth World Conference on
Women, 2.
Gathered here in Beijing in September 1995, the year of the
fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, 3.
Determined to advance the goals of equality, development and peace
for all women everywhere in the interest of all humanity,
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Acknowledging the voices of all women everywhere and taking note of
the diversity of women and their roles and circumstances, honoring the
women who paved the way and inspired by the hope present in the world's
youth, 5.
Recognize that the status of women has advanced in some important
respects in the past decade but that progress has been uneven,
inequalities between women and men have persisted and major obstacles
remain, with serious consequences for the well-being of all people, 6.
Also recognize that this situation is exacerbated by the increasing
poverty that is affecting the lives of the majority of the world's people,
in particular women and children, with origins in both the national and
international domains, 7. Dedicate ourselves unreservedly to addressing these constraints and obstacles and thus enhancing further the advancement and empowerment of women all over the world, and agree that this requires urgent action in the spirit of determination, hope, cooperation and solidarity, now and to carry us forward into the next century.
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