Women Conference

U.N. New York, Page 95.1 (BL-1)

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The U.N. Charter calls for equality for men and women. Realizing in 1975 there is inequality to the detriment of women, the United Nations declared that year the International Women’s Year, and every March 8 from that point officially, International Woman’s Day.

As part of the Women’s Year, the first World Conference on Women was held in Mexico City. On the first row of this album page, the second and third stamps commemorate the fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. One of my former professors and friend from college attended that conference. Hillary Clinton – then First Lady – was a speaker.

Clinton’s speech has been credited to the growth of the movement of what is known as the feminist foreign policy. This calls for international policies include the advancement of gender equality, as well as improving basic human rights of women, ensuring women are participating freely and equality in political decisions and representation or leadership, and that they have the same resources as men. I’m very much in favor of all of this; I’m prejudice in favor of women. I think women typically make better leaders than men. Women gave birth to us all: they should be in charge.

Note

Although the stamps on the first row commemorating the women’s conference are a little cluttered looking, if you look at them closely, they’re pretty nice. They were designed by a Chinese painter and printmaker, Ting Shao Kuang from Beijing. His style seems to be a mix of Art Deco from the 1920s, Egyptian figures, and with Chinese influences. The choice of a Beijing artist who’s known for paintings and posters of women looking stylish and powerful is fitting for this set of stamps. The only thing that would have made them better would be if he were a woman.

Contains 10 spots: own 10 – 10 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description	comment
1.1	✓	656	Social Summit 1995	50c (feb 1995) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	667	World Conference on Women Beijing, China	40c (sep 1995) comm., multicolor
1.3	✓	666	World Conference on Women Beijing, China	32c (sep 1995) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	661	Intl. Youth Year	32c (may 1995) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	668	UN Headquarters	20c (sep 1995) definitive, multicolor
2.3	✓	662	Intl. Youth Year	55c (may 1995) comm., multicolor

Endangered Species

3.1	✓	657	Giant Armadillo	32c (mar 1995) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	658	Bald Eagle Haliaeetus Leucocephalus	32c (mar 1995) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	659	Fiji Banded Iguana	32c (mar 1995) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	660	Giant Panda	32c (mar 1995) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

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