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Women's History Month |
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Ambassador Lee Feinstein on International Women’s Day
March 8 is International Women’s Day. This year, it also marks the 15th anniversary of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing. Fifteen years ago, 189 countries signed on to a Platform for Action that affirmed the need to work for women’s equality in access to education, healthcare, jobs, credit, and more. It stressed the need to have women participate fully in the economic and political life of their countries, and to protect women’s right to live free from violence. It was at this conference that then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton declared: Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.
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Remarks by Ambassador
Rice on International Women’s Day
Statement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent
Representative to the United Nations, on International
Women’s Day, March 3, 2010
On International Women’s Day 2010, thousands of advocates
for women’s rights are meeting at the United Nations in New
York for a historic Global Women’s Conference on the 15th
anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference and the
54th Session of the Convention on the Status of Women, with
the goal of advancing equality for women around the world.
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Presidential Proclamation on Women’s History Month
Countless women have steered the course of our history, and
their stories are ones of steadfast determination. From
reaching for the ballot box to breaking barriers on athletic
fields and battlefields, American women have stood resolute
in the face of adversity and overcome obstacles to realize
their full measure of success. Women’s History Month is an
opportunity for us to recognize the contributions women have
made to our Nation, and to honor those who blazed trails for
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Cracking the Glass Ceiling
More women are serving in elected and appointed offices at local, state and federal levels of government than ever before, thanks to the help of many who paved the way since America’s earliest days for women to fully realize the rights of citizenship.
http://www.america.gov/women-in-govt.html
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Women of Influence
This collection chronicles how 21 notable American women broke new ground, some by championing equal rights for all and others by their accomplishments in fields such as government, literature, and even in war.
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New Exhibition Celebrates
Women Who Challenged and Changed U.S.
Washington — The Smithsonian Institution’s National
Portrait Gallery is about to unveil its newest exhibition,
Women of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Photographs, a
collection of images celebrating women from all walks of
life whose achievements have changed the course of U.S.
history.
The exhibition opens October 10 and features 90 photographs
of women activists, artists, and athletes, as well as many
others.
“We have a panoply of
women’s ideas, struggles and achievements in the 20th
century,” said Martin Sullivan, director of the gallery. [more]
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Milestones in U.S. Women’s
History
Outstanding people and events that moved women’s rights
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Electronic Journal
 A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Since the first atomic bombs exploded in 1945, some have tried to rid the world of nuclear weapons. President Obama has embraced this goal with new vigor. This issue of eJournal USA examines the challenges to achieving nuclear disarmament. It conveys the hopes of some thinkers, and explains the doubts of others.
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