GOVERNMENTS MUST DEMONSTRATE COMMITMENT TO GENDER EQUALITY BY ALLOCATING RESOURCES, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

29 October 1996

Press Release
GA/SHC/3366/

GOVERNMENTS MUST DEMONSTRATE COMMITMENT TO GENDER EQUALITY BY ALLOCATING RESOURCES, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

19961029 CORRECTION

In Press Release GA/SHC/3366, issued 25 October, the third paragraph on page 9 should read:

"Turkey had pursued a policy of active participation of women in all aspects of the country's development process, she said. The State Ministry for Women's Affairs and the women's movement in Turkey, as part of commitments made at the Fourth World Conference on Women and as a priority objective, had been working to speed up the withdrawal of all reservations made upon Turkey's ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1985."

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