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Authors, sign in!According to The Washington Post, "Melanne Verveer and Hillary Rodham Clinton go back 40 years, political soul mates connected by like-minded activism and causes -- from George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign to women's rights. "
Verveer has been working for then first-lady Clinton since she gave the groundbreaking speech in Beijing in 1995 declaring women's rights can't be separated from human's rights.
It wasn't a shock when Clinton chose Verveer to be the first- Ambassador at Large for Global Women's Issues.
The recognition of crises affecting women worldwide, Verveer said, "has been evolutionary. If you look back to the '90s . . . there weren't even cables written from posts about what was happening on issues of concern to women that were really matters for our foreign policy consideration."
She has been a vocal advocate for women's rights. After she left the White house she co-founded, Vital Voices Global Partnership, which grooms women in developing countries for leadership roles in politics and government.
"Women may not know what was in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. . . . But they do know deep inside of them, they shouldn't be victims of abuse, they should have the right to participate in the political and economic lives of their society, the right to go to school," she said.
My Thoughts...
She's been a great vocal advocate for women's rights and I'm always excited to see women making a difference in such an unequal society. I can't wait to see all the great work she's going to due for future generations.
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Published November 20, 2009 by Tatiana McKinney |
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