“Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights”, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday, marking the occasion of International Women’s Day.
In a statement Ms. Clinton argued that there was still a long way to go towards achieving the goals adopted at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. “Women are still the majority of the world’s poor, unhealthy, underfed, and uneducated. They rarely cause violent conflicts but too often bear their consequences”, she said.
Recalling her attendance of the Beijing conference in 1995, she said that the United States is making women a cornerstone of foreign policy “because we think it’s the right thing to do, but we also believe it’s the smart thing to do as well.”
Highlighting the significant differences between welfare outcomes for men and women globally a release by the World Bank argued that women still trail men in the workplace, at the bank and on the farm. It said that women tend to earn 22 percent less in salary than men, made worse by lower and their access to credit is limited.
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