Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women and Signing Ceremony

World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14 to 30 July 1980, and Signing Ceremony, 17 July 1980. Statements by Mr. Bradford Morse (UNDP Administrator), Ms. J.G. Kraaijeveld-Wouters (the Netherlands), Ms. Monique Pelletier (France), Ms. Begum Taslima Abed (Bangladesh), Ms. Mercedes Pulido de Briceño (Venezuela), Ms. Rosa Luz Alegría (Mexico), Ms. Vinitha Jayasinghe (Sri Lanka), Ms. Jeanne Gervais (Ivory Coast), Ms. Karin Andersson (Sweden), Ms. Elba Ojara de Jemio (Bolivia), Ms. Bakhtiar Mehri (Iran), Ms. Ingrid Lehman (UN Centre for Disarmament), Ms. Msimu Hassan (Tanzania), Ms. Nora Astorga (Nicaragua), Ms. B.C. Kankasa (Zambia), Ms. Fatima Zohra Djeghrond (Algeria), Ms. Estrella Zeledon de Carazo (Costa Rica), Ms. Datin Paduka Rafida H. Aziz (Malaysia), Ms. Vasiti Raiwalvi (Fiji), Ms. Ina’am Al-Mufti (Jordan), Ms. Ebun Oyagbola (Nigeria), Ms. Nermin Abadan-Unat (Turkey), Ms. Francesca Pometta (Switzerland), Ms. Mai Sayegh (Palestine Liberation Organization), Mr. Abdullah Ghaloum Hussam (Kuwait, Under- Secretary-General for Social Affairs), Ms. Antoinette Oliveira (Gabon), Justice Annie Ruth Jiagge (Ghana), Ms. Grace Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Dr. Johanna Toepfer (German Democratic Republic), Ms. Johanna Dohnal (Austria), Dr. Phyllis McPherson-Russell (Jamaica) and Ms. Hava Hareli (Israel).