Hillary Rodham Clinton
Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session
delivered 5 September 1995, Beijing, China

希拉里1995年在联合国第四届妇女大会上的演讲:妇女的权利也是人权。该演讲至今仍是世界妇女人权的重要篇章。



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It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed, and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated. It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.
suffocate 受阻,受扼制;窒息 spine 脊柱,脊椎;刺; prostitution 卖淫;滥用;出卖灵魂 greed 贪婪,贪心 douse 浸泡,泼洒