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Religious and Cultural Concerns Slow Women's Progress

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 25th, 1995

Political, religious and cultural concerns cast long shadows over negotiations on women's human rights and health, slowing progress on a new global agenda for women's empowerment.

"Tradition and culture are being used as an excuse by some countries not to take action" at the United Nations (U.N.) Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China, September 4-15, 1995, said Sandra Kabir of the Bangladesh Women's Health Coalition, a non-governmental organization (NGO).

She noted that talks on issues like reproductive health and rights, and sexual health and rights, were making slow progress, with some countries objecting to references to health...

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