The following comes from remarks delivered at the Opening Session of the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness on November 30, 2011 in Busan, South Korea.
I'm pleased to be the first American Secretary of State to attend such a forum. We've already heard some excellent addresses with...
0 Comments | Posted September 16, 2011 | g:i A
Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chaired the first-ever Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) High-Level Policy Dialogue on Women and the Economy in San Francisco, California. Hosted by the United States, hundreds of private sector leaders and government officials gathered this week to discuss the inclusion of women as an...
0 Comments | Posted September 11, 2011 | g:i A
0 Comments | Posted May 6, 2011 | g:i A
This Mother's Day weekend, most of us will enjoy a home-cooked meal -- maybe even breakfast in bed. We'll probably take it for granted that the meal was prepared in a clean kitchen, where the air is safe to breathe. But for nearly half of the world's population, cooking at...
0 Comments | Posted March 8, 2011 | g:i A
March 8th is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. And, as many of you know, this anniversary is important to me. At the 1995 Beijing conference, I was so humbled by the positive response to my message that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights....
0 Comments | Posted August 20, 2010 | g:i A
Currently more than 20 million Pakistanis have been affected by the worst natural disaster in Pakistan's history. That is more than the population of New York State. The enormity of this crisis is hard to fathom,...
0 Comments | Posted June 11, 2009 | g:i A
This morning, one billion people around the world woke up hungry and tonight, they will go to sleep hungry. This issue has not gotten the attention it deserves, and it is a personal priority of mine and of the Obama Administration to address the challenge of chronic hunger with a...
0 Comments | Posted July 21, 2008 | g:i A
The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before science and women's health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of contraception like birth control pills, emergency contraception and IUDs by labeling...
0 Comments | Posted February 28, 2008 | g:i A
Marian Wright Edelman, my friend and founder of the Children's Defense Fund, says it best: "If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
In my 35 years as an advocate for children and families, I have never met a child without potential. But I've met...
0 Comments | Posted November 30, 2011 | g:i A