Hillary Clinton’s War for Women’s Rights
“I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century,” Clinton tells Newsweek….
While Clinton views the subjugation of the world’s women as a moral question, she plants her argument firmly on the grounds of national security, terrain she knows is far less likely to be attacked as “too soft” to be relevant to U.S. interests. “This is a big deal for American values and for American foreign policy and our interests, but it is also a big deal for our security,” she told Newsweek. “Because where women are disempowered and dehumanized, you are more likely to see not just antidemocratic forces, but extremism that leads to security challenges for us.”
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Further back, from her Beijing speech in 1995: “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all,” Clinton declared. “As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace everywhere in the world, as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, not schooled, subjected to violence in and outside their homes—the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized.”
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Why is she not my president?? This is such a good article and overview of what she’s doing for women’s rights worldwide. I got the shivers.
Read and get inspired~
I will love Hillary forever.
