¡°Women¡¯s rights are human rights¡± has echoed throughout the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Commission on the Status of Women for decades.
On 5 September 1995, then United States First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton got an ovation at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
Ms. Clinton¡¯s speech was watched by attendees representing 189 countries and many more around the world.
¡°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,¡± she declared, after which those in the conference room gave her a thunderous applause.
That sentiment ¨C ¡°women¡¯s rights are human rights¡± ¨C had never been voiced so prominently to a global audience and was immediately embraced as an international rallying cry for gender equality.
Using material from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ archive, this production explores the historic Beijing conference as captured by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ media coverage.
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