Whatever words people contacted by polling organizations associate
with Hillary Clinton, women all over the globe associate Hillary Clinton
with the speech. This is that speech. These are the words that billions of women associate with Hillary.
Today
is the 20th anniversary of this speech. It has been posted here
before. I once had the pleasure of watching my TA from China listening to
it for the first time. I am posting it again. There is always someone who has not seen or heard it. Here is that speech thanks to the Clinton Presidential Library.
This is a great recollection of that famous day and what led up to
the historic speech by Hillary's Senior Strategic Communications Advisor, Karen
Finney.
Hillary Clinton at the United Nations Fourth World Conference On Women, 1995
20
years ago, I got the chance to be part of a moment that would change
the world. I was in Huairou, China, a small town outside of Beijing,
where representatives from non-governmental organizations who couldn’t
attend the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women had gathered.
When Hillary Clinton stood before delegates from 189 countries to call
attention to women’s rights, it was electric.
Women
from every corner of the planet had come to Beijing and Huairou for the
conference. Everywhere I looked, I saw women translating ideas across
languages and cultures. I remember watching women lift up colleagues in
wheelchairs when meeting spaces didn’t have elevator access.
Hillary
Clinton will sit down with veteran NBC News correspondent Andrea
Mitchell on Friday for the third national interview of her presidential
campaign.
The exclusive interview, which will first air on
Mitchell's 12 p.m. MSNBC program, comes one day ahead of the 20th
anniversary of Clinton's Beijing speech on women’s rights, which
Mitchell covered for the network in 1995.
"Mitchell will ask the former Secretary of State about her presidential campaign, the GOP field, her email controversy" as well as the Beijing speech, NBC News said in a press release.
Samantha Power
Hillary Clinton