HILLARY CLINTON REMEMBERS WHEN SHE WAS ONCE TOLD WOMENS RIGHT WERE NOT IMPORTANT

This Thursday, New York’s documentary film festival DOC NYC will close with MAKERS: Once and For All, the latest film from AOL’s Makers team. The new documentary revisits the historic Beijing World Conference on Women of September 1995, which hosted more than 47,000 activists—including then–First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton and former Burmese political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi—who discussed the future of the women’s rights movement. It was at that event that Clinton delivered her landmark speech and declared: “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.”

The speech is remembered as a seminal moment in the history of women’s rights, but it almost didn’t happen. When Clinton expressed an interest in participating at the global conference as First Lady, she was told that women’s rights were not an important issue for the United States government. Watch the presidential candidate recall the event in the exclusive clip below. Source: Vogue