Fourth World Conference on Women

Action for Equality, Development and Peace
4-15 September 1995 - Beijing, China

FWCW Photo Gallery, Wednesday 13 September 1995

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Ms. Patricia Licuanan, Chairperson of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women, pondering the text of the Draft Plan for Action, one of the two main documents to be produced by the conference. The committee conducted a late-night meeting on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131426/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131621/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131435/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131318/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131312/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131316/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131304/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131327/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131301/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131437/M. Grant


A scene at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: 131329/M. Grant


A general view of the Main Committee meeting on 13 September in the process of working on the text of the Draft Plan for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131551/M. Grant


A view of the Azerbaijan delegation to the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131433/M. Grant


A delegate from the Philippines at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131615/M. Grant


Delegates at the late-night meeting of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women held on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131308/M. Grant


Ms. Patricia Licuanan, Chairperson of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women working on the text of the document produced by her committee during a late-night session on 13 September 1995. Credit: UN/DPI 131413/M. Grant


A general view of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women during a late-night session on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131559/M. Grant


Delegates at the Main Committee meeting of the Fourth World Conference on Women on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131311/M. Grant


Delegates at the Main Committee meeting of the Fourth World Conference on Women on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131314/M. Grant


A view of delegates working late into the night on the text of the Draft Plan for Action in the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China on 13 September 1995. Credit: 131568/M. Grant


Ms. Patricia Licuanan, Chairperson of the Main Committee of the Fourth World Conference on Women, where the Draft Plan for Action was successfully negotiated during long sessions near the end of the conference in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131423/M. Grant


Mrs. Helvi Sipila of Finland, Secretary-General of the First World Conference on Women in Mexico City (1975), attending the Fourth World Conference on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131231/Yao Da Wei


Mrs. Leticia Shahani of the Philippines, Secretary-General of the Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi (1985), attending the Fourth World Conference on 13 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Credit: UN/DPI 131220/Yao Da Wei


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