At U.N., Clinton rallies for more women's opportunities worldwide - washingtonpost.com: UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told government delegates and activists here Friday that violence against women remains a 'global pandemic' and that their 'subjugation' constitutes 'a threat to the national security of the United States.'
Speaking on the final day of a two-week U.N. conference on women's rights, Clinton urged U.N. member states to expand opportunities for women and end practices that subject them to discrimination and violence.
'Women and girls are bought and sold to settle debts and resolve disputes,' she told delegates to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. 'They are raped as both a tactic and a prize of war. They are beaten as punishment for disobedience and as a warning to other women who might assert their rights.'
