Women's Issues

Apparently This Still Bears Repeating

The words are especially poignant in 2017.

(Photo by Joel Sheakoski / Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

(Photo by Joel Sheakoski / Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

[H]uman rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all….

As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace everywhere in the world, as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, and not schooled, subjected to violence in and outside their homes, the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized.

—Hillary Clinton’s words from 1995 at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, which bear special relevance on International Women’s Day. Under the Trump Administration, the sentiment has become especially poignant.