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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 ...
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.
October 15–16: Second National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Brinley Hall in Worcester. [5] 1852. May 26: Ohio Women's Convention at Massillon. [8] June 2–3: Pennsylvania Woman's Convention at West Chester. [9] September 8–10: Third National Women's Rights Convention, held in Syracuse, New York. [5]
On July 10, 1971, at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) in Washington, D.C., NWPC co-founder Gloria Steinem delivered an Address to the Women of America. The speech furthered the ideas of the American Women's Movement, and is considered by some to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century. [1]
She proclaimed that “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.” This speech signaled another turning point towards taking a gendered approach to foreign policy making. Clinton's speech highlights the rumblings about the ways wars uniquely impact women that were starting to be discussed in the early 90s.
The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women's Rights Convention combined both female and male leadership and attracted a wide base of support including temperance ...