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Conference ends without statement
opposing bias against lesbians
By Charles Hutzler
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — Closing the biggest
international women's gathering ever,
the U.N. women’s conference chief used
an old Chinese proverb to remind dele-
gates last Friday of the hard road that
lies ahead.
“Let Beijing be the first step of our
thousand miles,” secretary-general
Gertrude Mongella told 5,000 delegates
from 189 nations at the closing session
of the U.N. Fourth World Conference on
Women.
Delegates hugged and wept as the
gathering adjourned. The two-week
conference both created a sense of soli-
darity about the need to better women's
lives, and exposed some deep ideologi-
cal rifts.
Disagreements were thrown into
sharp focus during days of hard bargain-
ing over the conference centerpiece, a
wide-ranging platform that runs the
gamut from promoting inheritance rights
to condemning rape in wartime.
The document is non-binding, but
meant to serve as a guide to govern-
ments.
No sooner had the platform been
approved by consensus than delegates
lined up to officially object to various,
provisions.
Chief among the critics was the
Vatican, which said the document's
“obsession with reproductive matters”
came at the expense of wider concerns.
Some of the provisions were
groundbreaking. The 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
child-bearing.
Another attempted first, though,
failed to materialize.
A bid to include a ban on discrimi-
nation against lesbians was dropped
from the final conference draft after
strong objections from predominantly
Roman Catholic and Muslim countries.
But activists said they were pleased that
the debate went as far as it did,
With such once-taboo subjects com-
ing into the open, some organizers said
they were worried about a conservative
backlash. ▼
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Differences must still be worked out
with a Senate version of the bill passed
in July. Despite doubts early on, AIDS
leaders expressed satisfaction with the
congressional action.
“We are pleased that members of
Congress have acknowledged the
urgency of the Ryan White CARE Act
and are moving forward,” said Mark
Barnes, executive director of the AIDS
Action Council. “This measure merits,
and has won, strong bipartisan support.
It is critical that this cooperative spirit
must prevail to ensure that the legisla-
tion moves quickly through the confer-
Barnes was referring to the confer-
ence committee which will be appoint-
ed to iron out differences in the Senate
and House versions of the bill.
The Ryan White Act, passed in 1990,
provides grants to help states, cities and
health care providers offer treatment
and support services to people infected
with HIV and those who have acquired
AIDS, the illness caused by HIV The act
is to expire this year.
The bill was named for the
Kokomo, Ind., teen-ager who contracted
AIDS through a blood transfusion and
led a nationwide campaign for under-
standing of people with AIDS before he
died in 1990.
Congress appropriated $633 million
for the program in fiscal 1995. A House-
passed spending bill provides $644 mil-
lion in 1996. ▼
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