Is Terrorism and the Freedom Fighting the Same?
By Sid Harth
Whereas Hindu bastards like kick_pakis, a shitworm if you can find one, wants to talk about Fiji when we have forty Shudra women being intimidated, silenced and raped by Gujju rats, the United Nations is having a shindig to celebrate five years of Women's Rights declarations. To do what? Like Hindu shitworms discuss Bollywood or something?
Such a shame that American universities, private dotcom companies, businesses, banks, even government wants to hire these uncouth, criminals who forget that they are human beings and claim the free speech rights that poor Shudra women do not have, even when the government of India declares that such rights exist but never enforced.
Bastard Brahmin rats are holed up in California, not just one shitworm like kick_pakis in the University of Southern California. When do you think these saffron shitworms going to start dismantling the systems sacred to America. Think again. They are doing it right under your noses.
Thanks to the Earth Times dated May 31, 2000.
Thousands of participants to attend UN 5-year review of women's rights
By JACK FREEMAN
© Earth Times News Service
NITED NATIONS--Officially it is called the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century. Unofficially it's Beijing+5, for the five-year review of the Fourth World Women's Conference, which was held in the Chinese capital in 1995. The special session is scheduled to run from June 5 through 9 and should be attended by representatives of 189 countries and some 1,200 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Officially, its purpose is to assess the progress that has been made on implementing the Platform for Action approved at the Beijing conference. It is also supposed to consider further initiatives for achieving a greater degree of gender equality in the years ahead. Unofficially, many people who have been working to make the event successful say its real purpose to raise public consciousness of just how much progress is still needed to achieve equality of the sexes. That equality, they point out, was one of the founding principles of the UN, enshrined in the organization's Charter, approved more than half a century ago.
A case in point: violence against women. There has never been any doubt that large numbers of women were being beaten by their husbands, or that many women living in war zones were being raped by soldiers. In most countries, though, such violence was never treated as a crime or a violation of human rights; it was simply regarded as beneath the notice of the authorities. Five years ago, however, the Beijing Platform for Action identified such violence against women as one of 12 critical areas of concern requiring the special attention of governments, the international community and civil society. And action has been taken in many places to try to stop it.
The other "areas of concern" cited by the Platform for Action were: women and poverty; education and training of women; women and health; women and armed conflict; women and the economy; women in power and decision-making; institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women; human rights of women; women and the media; women and the environment; and the girl child. While governmental delegates to the special session are negotiating their remaining differences over the text of its final document, a record number of NGOs ever to attend a UN meeting will be participating in a wide range of events at UN Headquarters and at several other venues around New York, including the historic old Customs House at the tip of Manhattan Island. As at earlier UN conferences on the advancement of women, the NGOs will be lobbying the government delegates to endorse their priorities. But what is at issue is much more than "what women want." UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has framed the issue this way:
"The commitments made by governments in Beijing," he said, "reflect the understanding that women's equality must be a central component of any attempt to solve the world's social, economic and political problems. Thus, where once women fought to put gender equality on the international agenda, gender equality is now one of the primary factors shaping that agenda." "Gender" issues figured prominently in the discussions at each of the global UN conferences that preceded Beijing in the 1990s: the Earth Summit in 1992, the Human Rights Conference in 1993, the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 and the Social Summit in 1995. And yet, despite all of the progress made at those conferences, and at the four women's conferences sponsored by the UN (Mexico City in 1975 Copenhagen in 1980, Nairobi in 1985 and Beijing in 1995), there is no question but that true gender equality remains an aspiration, not a reality. Women on this planet are far more likely than men to be living in poverty, or to be denied an education, to be under-represented in governing and decision-making bodies, or to be the victims of violence and other human rights violations. Angela V. E. King, Assistant Secretary General of the UN and the Secretary General's Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, says she hopes that Beijing+5 will be able to establish numerical targets or benchmarks that will help governments measure their progress toward equality.
However, even when the disadvantages suffered by women can be quantified, they are often so commonplace that they have become "invisible." And the only way to cope with that problem is to raise the level of public consciousness. The good news is that, for this one week at least, the question of gender equality will be taking center stage at the United Nations, the center of attention for all people everywhere. And whatever else happens at this special session, a great many people, in a great many places, are going to be doing more thinking about this issue than they have in a long time-at least since 1995.
Sid Harth..."Bastards like Vinay Kumar Reddy and kick_pakis should be flogged for destroying whatever chances children of immigrants of earlier generation who dedicated themselves to America by not adopting filthy Hindu ways may have in the new land."
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