Bush AWOL As 250 World Leaders Reaffirm Women's Rights

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Jim Lobe
OneWorld US
Thu., Oct. 14, 2004
http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/96009/1/

More than 250 global leaders reaffirmed their commitment to a ten-year-old UN plan to ensure the rights of women around the world.

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In an unprecedented statement, the former and current leaders, including 85 heads of state and government, also called for the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted by the UN in 2000, that call for greater efforts to sharply reduce global poverty and achieve universal access to education and health by the year 2015.

>>>>Washington’s isolation was made clear by the leaders who signed the statement, among them Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, Mexican President Vicente Fox, all of the heads of government of the European Union (EU), Botswana’s president Festus Mogae, as well as a more than a dozen other African leaders, and the leaders of China, Japan, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

In addition to Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter also signed the statement, as well as former WHO chief and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland.

In addition to Carter, more than two dozen Nobel laureates were also listed as signatories, including the Rev. Bishop Desmond Tutu and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.

[Demeter]

1. He Can Run, But He Can't Hide!

[PA Democrat]

2. "W stands for Women"- yeah right!

Have you guys seen the signs and bumper stickers making this claim? This is like a bad Orwellian nightmare.