“Women’s Rights are Human Rights:” Launching a Georgetown Exhibition

Oct 13, 2021 | Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the Georgetown University Library, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program
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“If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that women’s rights are human rights, and human rights are women’s rights, once and for all.” – Then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1995.

Join us to launch a new exhibition at the Georgetown University Library that explores how the United States prepared for and participated in the historic United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, hosted in Beijing in 1995.

The exhibition draws on memos, posters, brochures, souvenirs, letters, and photographs from the archives of Ambassador Melanne Verveer—the first Ambassador-at-large for Global Women’s Issues and Chief of Staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton—and considers how the ripple effects generated by the Beijing Conference significantly impacted American foreign policy.

Who: Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the Georgetown University Library, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Where: Georgetown

When: 13 October 2021