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Author: Rebecca Turkington

Rebecca Turkington is a Gates Cambridge Scholar at Cambridge University and formerly worked on gender and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.
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“Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”: How Equality Became a U.S. Foreign Policy Priority

Rebecca Turkington and Melanne Verveer
"Women’s Rights Are Human Rights": How Equality Became a U.S. Foreign Policy Priority

“Women’s rights are human rights” still reverberates around the world as it did in Beijing 25 years ago. Yet gender equality has not been reached in any country, though it is both a moral imperative and smart policy.

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