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Barack Obama 's Speech On Human Rights

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Joseph Arellano
27 May 2016
Friday 10:00AM
Research Paper: Hillary Clinton
I chose to analyze a speech Hillary Clinton made on human rights, or more specifically, women’s rights. Although I wouldn’t want Hillary Clinton for a president, I definitely can agree with everything she was advocating in this particular speech. She explains the ways in which women’s rights should be equivalent to human’s rights, but are currently not, in China. The issues she was addressing are not issues that we have often in America today; they are shocking and overlooked. “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.” On September 5, 1995, 180 countries came together in Beijing China to hear first lady Hillary Clinton 's speech about women 's rights. This speech was the United Nations Fourth World Conference of Women. The target audience for this speech is governments and other organizations that can help meet the goal of making women 's rights human rights. She addressed problems that every single country faced concerning the liberties of women, and why it was important that they receive these freedoms. The speech was courageous and considered path breaking too many in its demand for action. “The great challenge of this conference is to give voice to women everywhere whose experiences go unnoticed, whose words go unheard.” Hillary Clinton has become famous for the statement:
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