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The electronic version of this document has been prepared at the Fourth
World Conference on Women by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
in collaboration with the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women
Secretariat.
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                       Excerpt from Press Release.
  The written statement was not available in a scannable language at the
                time of presentation in the conference.
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    PATRICIA GILES, Chairperson of the Global Commission on Women's Health:
 The Commission was established by the World Health Organization (WHO).  In
order to advocate for women at all levels of government at the
intergovernmental level, the Commission is identifying gaps in knowledge about
women's health.  It has already produced papers on the health of adolescent
women and on women's aging and health.  The collection by all nations of sex
disaggregated data on women is crucial to raising awareness among policy-
makers.

    The Commission will restate the special vulnerability of people deprived
of education and living in poverty and impress upon governments that, without
help, women cannot take their rightful place -- economically, socially or
politically.  Women are entitled to the right to health, as an inalienable
right -- and they are entitled to nothing less.