[AFP]After hearing my story about attending the Fourth Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995, most people focus on the subject of my age and my reasons for attending the meeting. And so I tell them that I was 15-years-old, a Form Two student and a daughter of a woman who was and still is passionate about women's issues. The issues at this conference were raw and fresh (and still are). Even when then US First Lady Hillary Clinton made her speech, there was tension in the air as she named the issues at hand one by one. Her declaration at the end of the speech, “Women’s rights are human rights," earned her a standing ovation.

Source: Standard Digital June 01, 2021 12:36 UTC