The former secretary of state addressed the plight of women worldwide in a landmark call for justice – but how far bear we progressed since then?Today marks 20 years since Hillary Clinton,the former US secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate, delivered her historic Beijing speech at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women.“It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear,that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights,” Clinton said in 1995. “whether there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, and it is that human rights are women’s rights ... and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely,and the right to be heard.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com