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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2047
Concerning the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 17, 1995
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. LIPINSKI, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN,
Mr. WOLF, Mr. KING, and Mr. SALMON) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on International Relations
A BILL
Concerning the Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CONDITIONS ON EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR
TRAVEL 
TO 
THE 
FOURTH 
WORLD 
CON-
FERENCE ON WOMEN.
No funds shall be expended for travel by any United
States official or delegate to the Fourth World Conference
on Women, to be held in Beijing, August and September
1995, unless the Secretary of State certifies to Congress
that—
(1) the process of accrediting nongovernmental
organizations for the conference was conducted fair-
ly, according to clear criteria, with full opportunity
for substantive appeal of denials of accreditation;
(2) no nongovernmental organization seeking
accreditation to such a conference was denied such
accreditation by the conference organizers on the
basis of that organization’s actual or supposed politi-
cal orientation, or its affiliation with a particular
ethnic or religious group;
(3) accreditation was granted to—
(A) at least one group representing the
people of Taiwan; and
(B) at least one group representing the
people of Tibet;
(4) all representatives of nongovernmental orga-
nizations whose names were submitted to conference
officials in a timely fashion were granted visas by
the People’s Republic of China;
(5) arrangements were made by the People’s
Republic of China to provide the accredited non-
governmental organizations with access to the main
conference site that is substantially equivalent in
manner and degree to access afforded at previous
major United Nations conferences;
(6) assurances have been received that the Gov-
ernment of the People’s Republic of China will re-
spect the internationally recognized human rights of
delegates to the conference and representatives of
accredited nongovernmental organizations, including
but not limited to freedom of religion, freedom of
speech, and freedom of the press; and
(7) the Government of the People’s Republic of
China has released unharmed United States citizen
Peter H. Wu, known as Harry Wu, and has allowed
him to return to the United States.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PROMOTION OF WOMEN’S
RIGHTS BY THE UNITED STATES DELEGA-
TION.
It is the sense of the Congress that—
(1) the Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing, China, should promote an authentic wom-
en’s perspective on issues of equality, peace, and de-
velopment; and
(2) if the United States sends a delegation to
the Conference, the delegation should—
(A) in accordance with the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ensure
that ‘‘motherhood [is] entitled to special care
and assistance.’’;
(B) in accordance with the Universal Dec-
laration of Human Rights, uphold the family as
‘‘the natural and fundamental group unit of so-
ciety’’ and therefore ‘‘entitled to protection by
society and the state’’;
(C) in accordance with the commonly used
and generally accepted usage of the word, make
clear that gender refers to woman and man as
the two sexes of the human being;
(D) in accordance with the United Nations
Declaration of Human Rights uphold ‘‘the free-
dom of conscience and religion [and the] mani-
festation [of] one’s religion or belief in prac-
tice’’ with particular regard to those who pro-
vide health care services; and
(E) oppose abortion and infanticide in-
flicted on account of the sex of the child, as well
as forced abortion, forced sterilization, and
other coercive population control measures, and
refrain from promoting the recognition or es-
tablishment of an internationally protected
right to abortion.
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