Some women who attended the U.N. Special Session came from nations devastated by genocidal wars. They went home carrying new determination that they be included in peace talks.
The intense debate continues over the language of the final document produced by this special session of the U.N. Meanwhile, women’s non-governmental agencies from many nations are struggling to obtain basic civil rights.
In his speech welcoming 15,000 women to the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that women and girls must have access to education and become the “policy-makers, lawyers and bureaucrats.”
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