Common ground: delegates search for consensus at women's forum
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The contentious Fourth World Conference on Women focused on resolving differences over language in the official Platform for Action, and it was largely successful. By the final week committees found compromises for two- thirds of the 438 bracketed sections in the 150-page text. Conservatives were in force despite an overall activist tone, and Catholics let Islamic representatives carry the banner they themselves bore in 1994's Cairo population conference. Asian nations generally avoided the harshest debates.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Congressional record: lawmakers prepare to shift mass of legislation
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China's National People's Congress is preparing itself for a busy legislative session starting Mar 15, 1993. Topping the legislative agenda are the proposed amendments to the constitution, some ofwhich have been considered since the 1980s. The relatively neophyte legislatorsare also expected to routinely approve the central government budget, sweeping personnel changes and the planned restructuring of cabinet-level ministries.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
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