*************************************************************************** The electronic version of this document has been prepared at the Fourth World Conference on Women by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Secretariat. *************************************************************************** AS WRITTEN *************************************************************************** Excerpt from Press Release. The written statement was not available in a scannable language at the time of presentation in the conference. *************************************************************************** HARRIS O. SCHOENBERG, Director, Coordinating Board, Jewish Organizations: History's most famous exponents of liberty have rarely understood their task to include the liberation of women as well as men. It is the women from those countries, whose spokesperson claims precedence over universal norms of human rights for historical, cultural, or religious traditions that are said to protect their women, who cries out that they are the most unprotected. The true liberation of women cannot take place without the liberation of men. For too long, the United Nations has kept women's rights and human rights apart, not only bureaucratically, but geographically, with secretariats in different countries. Is it not time to acknowledge, as part of the thrust towards United Nations reform, that rights for women belong under human rights and bring the two bureaucracies together?