Hillary Clinton Women's Rights

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The Fight for Women’s Rights: Hillary Clinton spoke at the United Nation’s fourth world conference on women that was held in Beijing, China in 1995. She made a speech entitled, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” The speech was designed to meet the goal of women having rights are human rights. Clinton has been a women’s rights activist since the beginning of her career. She delivered the speech to one hundred and eighty countries, non-governmental organizations, and ordinary people. In the speech, some constraints of Clinton’s speech include her political background causing the audience to be suspicious of what Clinton has to say on this topic. Male audiences that have a prejudice against women and how much freedom they should be allowed because …show more content…

Examples of her claims of cause is stating that if women are treated equally then the result of that is “their families will flourish” (Clinton, par. 7) and this shows that because women are limited because of their gender, their family is suffering the consequences. Clinton’s claims of facts are “Women comprise more than half the world’s population, 70% of the world’s poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write” (Clinton, par. 10) and “Women are also dying from diseases that should have been prevented or treated” (Clinton, par.10). These are stated to show that because women are mistreated, these statistics are happening all around the world. Her claims of value such as “We need to understand there is no one formula for how women should lead our lives” (Clinton, par. 15) show that cultures that think little of women are limiting them in all their abilities and capabilities. Clinton’s examples of policy claims are as follows “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, par. 17) and “Women must enjoy the rights to participate fully in the social and political lives of their countries, if we want freedom and democracy to thrive and endure” (Clinton, par. 27). These are stated to show that injustice is happening

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