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  • >> Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton.

  • [applause]

  • >> Good evening.

  • [cheering]

  • Good evening everyone.

  • [cheering]

  • I have been backstage watching the proceedings

  • on a screen back there and feeling energized by the enthusiasm here tonight on behalf of

  • the Global Fund and its work more than 25 years. I am so pleased that I can be here

  • joining with all of you to make sure that the work of the Fund continues and touches

  • even more lives, transforming them and through that transforming societies and countries.

  • I want to thank Abby for her introduction but even more for the film that we saw that

  • she produced which was so uplifting and also to my longtime friend and colleague and some

  • of the battles of the past Dina Dublon and all of the supporters of the Global Fund.

  • I also want to particularly recognize Jennifer Buffett and Jacki Zehner who are being honored

  • tonight with the Global Philanthropy Award. And I always love listening to Christiane

  • and we are so pleased that your voice and your influence is being heard around the world,

  • the message you delivered tonight is one I have heard you deliver, seen you deliver and

  • I thank you for being such a strong voice on behalf of women and girls.

  • And I want to thank Dr. Kanyoro who has taken on the leadership of the Fund and championed

  • not only the organization but the underlying work that has meant so much to all of us.

  • I’ve been obsessed the last few days as I am sure a number of you have been about

  • the terrible violence and loss life, injury in Boston. And like so many American and those

  • watching around the world we saw ordinary citizens alongside first responders rushing

  • into danger to help. It was a tragic terrible day but seemed to really exemplify what Patriots

  • Day really means. And because we do better when we work together. Women and men, all

  • of us across every line that is used to divide us. And it is important that as our hearts

  • go out and support for the people who were affected in Boston that we remember what makes

  • this country so unique. The sense of volunteerism, whether it is responding to a disaster like

  • we saw on the streets of Boston the other day, where strangers were helping strangers

  • or whether it is this Global Fund that started with four women having a conversation. I think

  • it is one of our greatest strengths. And what the Global Fund has done and what brings me

  • along with all of you tonight is to celebrate and support the partnerships that have been

  • forged with grassroots women’s organizations across the globe, 175 countries, urban and

  • rural areas, conflict zones, geographically and political isolated places where literally

  • the support you are providing tonight can mean the difference between life and death,

  • between the potential that every person, woman and man alike, deserves to have fulfilled

  • and disappointment and dashed dreams. Youve already heard that the grants that are going

  • to NGO’s and civil society groups are now more than 100 million in total.

  • And I personally appreciate greatly all the work the Global Fund has done with the Clinton

  • Global Initiative. Because part of the strength of the Global Fund is creating such partnerships.

  • You saw brief snippets of the lives that were being affected in Abby’s movie, but really

  • stop and think for a moment about the women entrepreneurs you are supporting. They are

  • starting businesses. They are winning financial independence. Think about the girls going

  • to school for the first time, or think about the girls who are the first in their family

  • or in their village to beyond primary school. Think about the survivors of domestic violence

  • who are rebuilding their lives with counseling, job training legal services. Think about the

  • domestic workers who are enjoying new rights and opportunities. Think about the women who

  • are running for local and even national office and winning.

  • You are engaged in what I believe is the great unfinished business of the 21st century: advancing

  • the rights and the opportunities of girls and women; so that they can be full participants

  • in their communities, their economies, their societies their nations and yes, our world.

  • Now I like the Global Fund because from the very beginning it has understood that women

  • can be agents of change, drivers of progress, makers of peaceall they need is a fighting

  • chance. That we have to stop seeing women as victims and start seeing them as the people

  • who own their own lives and can help the rest of us understand the future that can be created.

  • You know as secretary of state I saw what I knew in vivid example after example as I

  • traveled around the world it is no coincidence that so many of the countries that threaten

  • regional and global peace are places where women and girls are denied dignity and opportunity.

  • Think of the young women from Northern Mali all the way to Afghanistan whose schools were

  • destroyed. That young brave Pakistani woman Malala, who has galvanized the world on behalf

  • of the right of girls to get an education. Think of the girls across Africa, the Middle

  • East and South Asia who are condemned to child marriage. The picture of the six year old

  • little girl in the refugee camp: the Afghan refugee camp across the border in Pakistan,

  • who was being put forward as collateral for her father’s loan. We are following that

  • story, but it was an American woman, an American woman lawyer who worked to pay the debt to

  • prevent that little girl from being forced to marry a man in the family of the creditor.

  • Think about the refugees in the conflicts from Eastern Congo to Syria; primarily women

  • and their children who endure rape as a weapon of war. Now it is no coincidence that where

  • we find conflict where we find the worst of humanity, we find women and girls who are

  • abused and mistreated, viewed as almost another species, not quite human.

  • But were also seeing in countries where democracy and the rule of law are struggling

  • to take route, women and girls are still having problems participating as full and equal citizens.

  • The story is not done in the countries of the Arab awakening, but in Egypt, where women

  • stood on the front lines of the revolution, they are now being denied seats at the table.

  • And they face a rising tide of sexual violence. It is also no coincidence that in countries

  • making the leap from poverty to prosperity that there are lots of questions about whether

  • or not women will be empowered. One of the great unanswered questions for the next decade

  • or two is whether or not countries like China and India can sustain their growth and emerge

  • as true global economic powers. Much of that depends on how they treat their women and

  • girls. So these are not coincidences, research all

  • over the world shows what we know - is that when women participate in their economy everyone

  • benefits, when they participate in peace making and peacekeeping we are all safer and more

  • stable. And you have to look no further than tonight’s recipients of the Charlotte Bunch

  • Human Rights Defender Awards to know this is true. Three women from very different places

  • who have worked in their own ways toward the same goal: advancing the rights and opportunities

  • for women. Stasa Zajovic helped to bring the Women in Black movement to the Balkans in

  • the 1990’s; today she continues her work for peace and justice. Mozn Hassan, one of

  • the many brave activists calling for equality and dignity for all Egyptianswomen and

  • menis working to build a genuine democracy, respect for universal human rights, protection

  • for all citizens. And no one knows that struggle better than Monica Roa who has championed

  • judicial reform in Columbia and pushed the courts to honor and protect women’s rights

  • and women’s health. These three women are exemplars of what can be achieved when courage

  • and compassion meet. And they are part of a powerful, new current of grassroots activism.

  • Someone who has been leading the charge and making the case is Charlotte Bunch. She has

  • always on the front line of this struggle. As an activist and an organizer, a writer

  • and a teacher, a champion for our common humanity. I got to know her in the run-up to the fourth

  • world conference on women in Beijing back in 1995. I saw her as an extraordinary leader

  • and advocate; immersed in the workings of international law and understanding the almost

  • incomprehensible UN process. Because she knew that to weave the rights of women and girls

  • into the fabric of the international community, the world needed to come together. The historic

  • outcomes of Beijing would not have been possible without her tireless work and her brilliant

  • vision. She didn’t stop there though, she founded the Center for Women’s Global Leadership

  • at Rutgers, which provided an intellectual and organizing foundation for work around

  • the world, especially in the fight against sexual and gender based violence. She also

  • led the Gender Equality Architecture Reform effort that laid the groundwork for UN Women,

  • a major step forward in the international system. She has been a tireless advocate for

  • the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Discrimination Against Womenand let me

  • say again it way past time for the United States to demonstrate our global leadership

  • by finally ratifying the convention. A year after Beijing I was very proud to stand

  • and see my husband honor Charlotte as a leader with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human

  • Rights in 1996. And when I was Secretary of State she was one of a small group of women

  • leaders I brought together to help steer a new course for American diplomacy and to ensure

  • that the needs of women and girls were integrated into all aspects of our foreign policy.

  • So I am grateful for Charlotte’s leadership; I am really impressed by all of her contributions

  • and I am also challenged by her absolute demand that we keep doing more and more. That no

  • matter what weve done, we can’t be satisfied. So I think we should all work to be worthy

  • of Charlotte’s example. To keep fighting for rights and opportunities, to keep pushing

  • for participation, to keep telling the world that human rights are women’s rights and

  • women’s rights are human rights once and for all. Now join me in learning more about

  • Charlotte Bunch and her extraordinary work. Global Fund for Women 25th Anniversary Gala

  • Transcript: Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton Keynote Speech

  • 17 April 2013

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>> Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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尊敬的希拉里-羅德姆-克林頓出席全球婦女基金25週年紀念晚會。 (The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton at Global Fund for Women's 25th Anniversary Gala)

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