‘Human Rights Are Women’s Rights’ Now More Than Ever

Thirty years after Hillary Clinton’s historic Beijing speech, a backlash has women revisiting her 1995 clarion call.

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton gives her speech at the United Nations Fourth World Congress on Women in Beijing, China, on Sept. 5, 1995 where she said, “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.” (Credit: Sharon Farmer/White House Photograph Office/National Archives and Records Administration)