Hillary Clinton Sees a Dangerous Moment for Women's Rights, and Democracy

Source: New York Times

With her rallying cry for gender equality turning 30 this year, Mrs. Clinton says President Trump and autocratic leaders abroad are steadily dismantling decades of progress

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"The report, titled “Beijing+30: A Roadmap for Women’s Rights for the Next Thirty Years,” acknowledges that much progress has been made for women’s rights since 1995, when Mrs. Clinton, then the first lady, addressed the United Nations. Women have won legal rights and protections in over 100 countries. The gap between boys and girls in primary school has closed. And the maternal mortality rate declined substantially.

But in many areas, the rights of women are regressing. In 2024, nearly a quarter of nations saw a backlash on women’s rights and gender equality, according to the report, which cites examples of efforts to remove femicide from the penal code in Argentina, a push to overturn a ban on female genital mutilation in Gambia and the renewed total exclusion of women from public life in Afghanistan"