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Djinda Hane
November 28, 2017
Mrs. Wilcox
ENG 101- 047
Women’s Rights are Human Rights
Women’s Rights are Human Rights is a speech by Hillary Clinton, this speech was delivered on September 5, 1995, during the United Nations Fourth World Conference. Hillary Clinton was born in 1947, in Chicago. She got her education at Yale University, and got married to his husband Bill Clinton in 1975. She delivered this speech to denounce all the difficulties that women use to face, she talked about problems concerning women, and also gave voice to the women who suffer, and who are threaten violently.
Hillary’s speech denounce violence toward women. She talked for all the women, specially for those women who can not be heard. The ethical appeal in this speech is that Hillary is the right person to talk about women’s rights. First of all, she is a woman, and she knows that she is talking about. She also has always fought for women, and have seeing a lot of women suffering from being rapped, and being thread violently. She learned and knows about the challenges facing women all around the world. Hillary argues “Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my own country and around the world.”(Clinton); she has being where in the world, and knows what women are facing, and how they work hard for themselves, and their families. She has being mothers fighting hard everyday for their children, She also have met women who have being raped, and women whose lives hurt. Her goal was to defend
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women’s rights, and to make people understand that women should not be forget. According to Hillary, “human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.”(Clinton). She defended that women have the same rights as men, she would have the rights to vote, and the rights to be heard when decisions are made, and the rights to make decisions.
Works Cited
“Clinton, Hillary Rodham.” Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, 2017, p. 1p. 1. EBSCOhost, ezp.gvltec.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=funk&AN=CL159050&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Clinton, Hillary Rodham. “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1/2, Spring/Summer96, p. 98. EBSCOhost, ezp.gvltec.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true;db=aph;AN=9702173530;site=ehost-live;scope=site.
