Hardline hospitality: China draws fire as it prepares to host a women's rights conference

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China is being criticized on two fronts on the eve of the 1995 UN Conference on Women: for its harsh human rights record, and for the facilities it has built for non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Huairou, site of the NGO conference, is some distance away from the main event in Beijing.

China, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Human rights, Women's rights, Beijing, China, 1995 AD, United Nations Conference on Women

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Talks and tension

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Relations are extremely tense between the Israeli and Palestinian residents of the West Bank town of Hebron. Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are focusing on Hebron following a summit between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasir Arafat in Washington, DC.

Israel, Political aspects, Israeli foreign relations, International relations, Palestine National Authority, Hebron, West Bank

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Gypsy dreams: a Czech TV show spurs a refugee surge in Canada

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Inquiries from Gypsies seeking asylum in Canada soared after the broadcast of a documentary on Canada's asylum system on Czech TV. The situation has spurred a domestic debate in the Czech Republic about discrimination against Gypsies.

Canada, Czech Republic, Ethnic relations, Emigration and immigration, Race relations, Romanies

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