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The Mormon church claims,

They had a world conference on the family sponsored by the United Nations in Beijing, China. We sent representatives. It was not pleasant what they heard. They called another one in Cairo. Some of our people were there. I read the proceedings of that. The word marriage was not mentioned. It was at a conference on the family, but marriage was not even mentioned.

As stated by Boyd K. Packer as a CES Conference (re-stated in FairMormon)

Is this true?

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A similar conference was said to be held in Salt Lake City,

It was then they announced that they were going to have such a conference here in Salt Lake City. Some of us made the recommendation: “They are coming here. We had better proclaim our position.”

Which would make it appear as though Packer was referring to the conferences the WOW attended,

UAW became aware that three International Women’s Conference’s had been held and that the fourth was soon to be held in Beijing, China. It was determined that the Utah Association of Women would also attend, which representatives did. ... 1999

WOW invited to attend the 1st World Family Policy Forum at BYU. WOW was represented at the UN Cairo +5 Population Conference at The Hague, Netherlands.

Plus a variety of Salt Lake events after. None appeared to be international.

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    Does he mean the 1995 World Conference on Women? I can't find any UN-sponsored event in Beijing titled "World Conference on the Family".
    – ff524
    Commented Aug 16, 2017 at 3:51
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    I wonder why a conference on family matters ought to mention marriage? ;-)
    – DevSolar
    Commented Aug 16, 2017 at 8:49
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    I think that for any modern view of the world, marriage isn't necessarily included in family anymore. You have so many different types of arrangement that aren't even close to the traditional marriage and constitute very much what we understand by family that I'm not surprised at all by this. I can live together with my SO, raise my kids, etc without marrying, and being perfectly happy.
    – T. Sar
    Commented Aug 16, 2017 at 12:24
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    They typically see the lack of emphasis on the traditional family as an attack. But regardless of opinions on the family, the fact that the conferences mentioned in the quote were not targeted discussions on the family, but rather gender equality/women's rights, would seem to contradict the apparent intent of the quote. Which would appear to be an attempt to demonstrate that the rest of the world is distancing itself from traditional marriage. Regardless of the truth of the statement, citing the conferences is misdirected.
    – user41350
    Commented Aug 16, 2017 at 13:48
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    @CPerkins I'm not convinced there was no conference. The LDS proclaimed their position in 1995. I found a better list of what UN events in 1995. I'm wondering if it's something to do with "The second International Day of Families".
    – Laurel
    Commented Aug 17, 2017 at 21:14

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