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Commentary: beyond Beijing's cue cards.

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"Equality, Peace, and Development" were the themes of the 1995 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Forum and the parallel Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW). At least, that was what the advance publicity proclaimed. Throughout Beijing and along the 50 kilometer route to rural Huairou, huge blood-red Chinese/English banners echoed and expanded this theme. As further evidence that China had gone all out for the arrival of some 30,000 women's rights activists, billboards along major roads had giant cloth slip-covers with pro-woman slogans. But did the China conferences work toward the advancement of women?

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