Women's Rights

HC Deb 07 June 1995 vol 261 c220W

35. Mrs. Helen Jackson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what contribution he has made to the Government's report to the UN Beijing conference in September with regard to women's human rights. [25466]

Mr. Douglas Hogg

My Department was closely involved in the preparation of the UK national report for the Peking conference. We have also taken a leading role in seeing to negotiate acceptable human rights language in the draft platform for action to be agreed at the conference.