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First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton during 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. Its most prominent usage is as the name of a speech given by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the First Lady of the United ...
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 ...
The court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting women's health and protecting the potentiality of human life.
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.
Regarded as one of the 19th century’s most important human rights advocates, Sojourner Truth delivered what is considered one of the most significant abolitionist and women’s rights speeches ...
Women's rights are human rights. World Conference on Women, 1995. World Summit for Social Development. Categories: 1995. Women's history by year. 1990s in women's history. Hidden categories: Category series navigation using skip-gaps parameter.
Women's rights historic sites in New York City. Women's Rights Pioneers Monument. Women's suffrage in states of the United States. Women's suffrage in the United States. Women's suffrage movement in Washington. Working Women's Association. World's Congress of Representative Women. Wyoming Constitution.
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.