Human Rights Are Women Rights

In analyzing Hillary Clinton's speech entitled "Human Rights are Women’s Rights," it is found that she advocates why women rights should be the same as human rights; she speaks not only about America but about the entire globe. Clinton spoke for all women on September 5, 1995, when she gave this remarkable address in Beijing, China at the U.N World Conference during the Women Plenary Session. Clinton's speech advocates women's rights, and highlights discrimination and abuse against women throughout the nations. Clinton shows that she is passionate about the issues women face by the tone of her voice and her body language. The purpose of the speech is to shine light of the issues women face and how it affects every country: educational setbacks, dropping employment rates, and healthcare availability. In this speech Clinton uses various rhetorical devices to persuade the audience of the importance of women rights. Pathos, ethos, and logos in Hillary Clinton's "Human Rights are Women's Rights" speech calls for change to the unequal rights of women.

Because of the hard times that women and families face across the globe, Clinton is able to utilize pathos to display the purpose and strengths of women and their rights. Clinton does this with her body language and tone of voice. She connects with her audience through her body language to connect with the audience and help her claims. Clinton's tone also stays constant, exemplifying her uncanny ability to remain assertive while addressing a topic which undoubtedly touches close to home. Clinton wears a business-like pink shirt to display the feminism theme. The speaker includes various brutal situations, that all women have faced that pull the heart strings of all the people in the room. Clinton said things along the lines of “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.” (Clinton 15), barbarically portraying the torment that women with babies deal with when denied basic needs to live or even life itself. She lets the people know that she is speaking for all women and their problems by stating that “ [she speaks] for the women around the world who are denied the chance to go to school, or see a doctor…,” by doing this she extends sympathy to all families and allow them to feel assurance. Clinton voices her opinion strongly and keeps her tone at a steady pace as she continues on to indicate that if they do not believe her claims to ask the women they live and work with.

Armed with ethos, Clinton gains credibility which helps persuade her audience, (not that it was difficult), to believe women are deprived of basic rights. While portraying how women suffrage affects families, Clinton gives a mental image of the situation at hand. Clinton tells how women are deprived of having a job and political partake. She then emphasizes how women are the back-bone of the family, and how men go home and talk about their day with their wives and ask for help, this is factual. Women are discriminated however the world proves that men need women. Clinton emphasizes how it is unconstitutional and a violation of human rights, while the leading cause of death to women is the violence and domestic abuse in their own homes. Clinton's role as first lady and national feminist helps the audience grasp her importance and understand the troubling fight for women rights.

Clinton ensures that the audience is pursued and relates well to the issues she presents by using phrases such as “we come together in fields and factories, in village markets and supermarkets, in living rooms and board rooms.,” (Clinton 12) because, not that she was physically with all women in fields and factories, but as women they stand together through everything. This phrase draws attention to all women no matter the social status or class. As she