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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
25 years ago, the United Nations held its 4th and so far its last World Conference on Women, in China. This is part 2 of a WINGS retrospective on that conference and the issues and politics that surround it. Speakers: Pacifica radio reporter Julie Drizin on national propaganda; program host, Frieda Werden; reporter from FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour), Maria Suarez; Director of the UN Population Fund, Dr. Nafis Sadik; Uganda’s Vice President and Minister of Community Development, Wandira Specioza Kazibwe; Women’s Economic Agenda Project board member, and welfare recipient, Renee Pico; Ellen Diederich, German peace activist and participant in Women’s Peace Train; Diane Bailey, UN Radio “Women”; Norway’s Minister of Children and Family, Greta Birgit; Norway’s Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland; Margaretta D’Arcy, Irish campaigner for counting women’s unwaged work.
