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Observers cite Clinton's human rights commitment
It was a startling speech coming from a first lady - indeed, Hillary Clinton's 1995 speech at the United Nations Conference for Women in Beijing is credited as a watershed moment.
"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," the first lady told the international gathering. ". . . It...
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