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  2. Women's rights are human rights - Wikipedia

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Women's Rights Are Human Rights) First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clintonduring her speech in Beijing, China. "Women's rights are human rights" is a phrase used in the feminist movement. The phrase was first used in the 1980s and early 1990s.

  3. World Conference on Women, 1995 - Wikipedia

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    The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China. [ 1] At this conference, governments from around the world agreed on a comprehensive plan to achieve global legal equality, known as the Beijing ...

  4. Women's rights - Wikipedia

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    Self-determination of people. Sexuality. Speech. Water and sanitation. v. t. e. Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries.

  5. For China's women, this week's Congress is unlikely to mean ...

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    As Xi Jinping consolidates power at China's 20th Communist Party Congress this week, Chinese women are not holding their breath for progress in gender equality. Xi's decade as the party's general ...

  6. Human rights in China - Wikipedia

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    Human rights in China are periodically reviewed by international bodies, such as human rights treaty bodies and the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review. [1] The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC), their supporters, and other proponents claim that existing policies ...

  7. Mao Zedong - Wikipedia

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    — Mao, February 1927 The CCP Central Committee, hiding in Shanghai, expelled Mao from their ranks and from the Hunan Provincial Committee, as punishment for his "military opportunism", for his focus on rural activity, and for being too lenient with "bad gentry". The more orthodox Communists especially regarded the peasants as backward and ridiculed Mao's idea of mobilizing them. They ...

  8. China undergoes rare scrutiny of rights record at UN meeting

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    GENEVA (Reuters) -China underwent scrutiny of its human rights record at a U.N. meeting on Tuesday, with mostly Western countries calling for protections for Xinjiang Uyghurs and greater freedom ...

  9. Women in China - Wikipedia

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    For thousands of years, women in China lived under the patriarchal social order characterized by the Confucius teaching of "filial piety". [4] In modern China, the lives of women have changed significantly due to the late Qing dynasty reforms, the changes of the Republican period, the Chinese Civil War, and the rise of the People's Republic of ...