Volume 3, Number 1 - International Development - Special Edition 1999

Title: 50 Years of Progress: Moving Toward Full Human Rights and Economic Empowerment for Women

Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Abstract: The First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, critically examines the legal, economic, and social trends in human rights policies for women around the world. Mrs. ClintonÕs assessment of global progress in the field of human rights during the past fifty years is a synthesis of her own reactions to meeting with thousands of women and the findings from a number of United Nations conferences on womenÕs issues. Countries and regions that have made significant efforts to improve the physical, psychological, and economic well being of their female citizens are detailed. Countries that have failed to progress are also analyzed.

About the Author: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has been an advocate of women and childrenÕs rights for most of her public life. She is also a proponent of micro-lending as a means of achieving economic development and self-sufficiency. Mrs. Clinton is a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, and the author of It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us.

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