The Unique Voice of Hillary Clinton: on Civil Rights

Sex selection, prostitution & war rape: human rights issues

It is a violation of human rights:
• when babies are denied food or drowned because they are girls.
• when women and girls are sold into prostitution.
• when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned because their marriage dowries are too small.
• when individual women are raped in their own communities and women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.
• when a leading cause of death among women 14 to 49 is the violence they are subjected to by their own relatives.
• when girls are brutalized by genital mutilation.
• when women are denied the right to plan their own families and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.
• If there is one message that echoes forth, let it be that human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.

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