 Speaking in the Parliament in 1995, he said ""A couple of years ago I had the opportunity of attending a United Nations conference on human rights in Vienna.I was absolutely appalled by what I heard and saw at one of the conference hearings on discrimination against women when evidence was given by many women who had undergone tremendous physical violence and sexual harassment.Many of the hundreds of people who heard that evidence were in tears as they listened to the horrific accounts by women from many countries.