This #ThrowbackThursday, we return to 1995, when then US First Girl Hillary Rodham Clinton acquired an ovation on the UN Fourth World Convention on Girls in Beijing.
Ms. Clinton’s speech on 5 September 1995 was watched by attendees representing 189 nations and lots of extra all over the world.
“If there’s one message that echoes forth from this convention, let it’s that human rights are ladies’s rights and ladies’s rights are human rights, as soon as and for all,” she declared, after which these within the convention room gave her a thunderous applause.
That sentiment – “ladies’s rights are human rights” – had by no means been voiced so prominently to a worldwide viewers and was instantly embraced as a world rallying cry for gender equality.
Utilizing materials from the UN archive, this manufacturing explores the historic Beijing convention as captured by UN media protection.
Watch Ms. Clinton’s speech and extra here.
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