March 16, 2010
Fifteen years ago, more than 180 of the world’s governments came together in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women, where then-First Lady Hillary Clinton of the United States declared to assembled delegates, “Women’s rights are human rights, and human rights are women’s rights.” On March 12th, at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, now-Secretary of State Clinton spoke again, calling for renewed commitment to the promises of the Beijing, affirming that “the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women” is “at the heart of the foreign policy of the United States.”
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