by Kalpana Sharma, The Hindu, India - If women are getting more visibility today, it is partly because of the changes initiated by the UN conferences of the 1990s. This month marks 15 years since the UN fourth World Conference on Women that was held in Beijing.I know that these days the United Nations does not have much currency. But through the 1990s, some of the important conferences that the UN convened saw the emergence of an international consensus on a number of important issues.