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Hillary Clinton, at the time the First Lady of the United States, gave the speech Women's Rights Are Human Rights at the conference on 5 September 1995. [12] That speech is considered to be influential in the women's rights movement, and in 2013 Clinton led a review of how women's rights have changed since her 1995 speech. [13]
The campaign sold T-shirts stating "women's rights are human rights" at her campaign store, in reference to her speech. [20] The campaign also sold a bag that featured the full phrase "Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights"; on the bag it was shown in six languages. [21]
Build on consensus and progress made at previous United Nations conferences and summits - on women in Nairobi in 1985, on children in New York in 1990, on environment and development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, on human rights in Vienna in 1993, on population and development in Cairo in 1994 and on social development in Copenhagen in 1995 with ...
The film looks at whether any progress has been made with treating women's rights as human rights, since twenty years ago, when in 1995, Hillary Clinton made a groundbreaking speech at the Fourth Women's Conference in Beijing. It features interviews with the only three women to have held the position of Secretary of State, as of 2015.
Equality for women has been an ongoing battle since the original women's rights conference in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. So, in honor of Women's Equality Day, we're taking a look at some of ...
Cleveland Women's Rights Convention of 1853, Cleveland, Ohio, fourth in the series; Philadelphia Women's Rights Convention of 1854, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifth in the series; Cincinnati Women's Rights Convention of 1855, Cincinnati, Ohio, sixth in the series; New York Women's Rights Convention of 1856, New York, seventh in the series; New ...
"A Call to the Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference" in Minneapolis, May 7–10 in 1916. This is a chronological list of women's rights conventions held in the United States. The first convention in the country to focus solely on women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention held in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. [1]
In a September 1995 speech before the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Clinton argued forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in the People's Republic of China itself. She declared, "it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights". [51]