Human rights are women's rights, women's rights are human rights.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: September 13, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Those conservatives who charge that the Beijing women's conference is promoting radical feminism along with the demise of family and motherhood ought to take a closer look at what's happening there.

What is most important about this gathering of women from First, Second and Third World countries is that it is advancing the relatively recent notion that all women have certain basic human rights. If that seems like tame stuff, think again. In many quarters of the world the notion that women have the ``right'' not to be raped or beaten or sold into prostitution is downright ...

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