Actually, it was only at the very last prepcom, preparatory meeting in New York just prior to the Beijing Conference that the whole section on the "Girl Child" was added and this was in the initiative of the Asian groups as well as African groups. It remains a very significant contribution of the Beijing Conference.

Perhaps, finally, I'd like to emphasize this because this is very important to the Philip-pines.

A breakthrough in the 4th World Conference on Women is, it recognized women migrant workers as a vulnerable group and ensured their rights. This is the first time that women migrant workers in addition to simply women migrants are so recognized. So, in past women's conferences women migrant workers were never singled out or given any attention as such. They were always included under the rubric of women migrants. But now specifically, may I quote paragraph 116.

"116. Some groups of women, such as women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refuge women, women migrants, including women migrant workers, women in poverty living in rural or remote communities, destitute women, women in institutions disabilities, elderly women, displaced women, repatriated women, women living in poverty and women in situations of armed conflict, foreign occupation, wars of aggression, civil wars, terrorism, including hostage-taking, are also particularly vulnerable to violence."

This was on the chapter on "Violence Against Women" and this was the paragraph that spelled out the vulnerable groups and I think that is very important that women migrant workers are recognized today as a particularly vulnerable group.

Paragraph 58(k) reads this way. It is in the "Action Sections under the Economy", under poverty actually and governments are called to quote:
"58(k). Ensure the full realization of the human rights of all migrants, including women migrant workers, and their protection against violence and exploitation, introduce measures for the empowerment of documented women migrants, including women migrant workers; facilitate the productive employment of documented migrant women through greater recognition of their skills, foreign education and credentials and facilitate their full integration into the labor force."

What is very significant here is the recognition that migrants do have credentials earned in their home country and should also be recognized in the host countries.

Having pointed out some of those highlights, may I just comment on what were some of the unique features on the 4th World Conference on Women? How was it different from past conferences?

Well, first of all, just share. I think we all have read the accounts on how large the attendance at this Conference was.