Hillary Clinton

===International diplomacy and promotion of women's rights===
[[File:Hillary Rodham Clinton Addresses the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women at the Beijing International Conference Center in Bejiing, China - NARA - 131493880.jpg|thumb|Clinton at the Fourth World Conference on Women, where she uttered the famous line, "Women's rights are human rights"]]

Clinton traveled to 79&nbsp;countries as first lady,<ref name="nyt122607">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/us/politics/26clinton.html |title=The Résumé Factor: Those 8 Years as First Lady |author=Healy, Patrick |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 26, 2007}}</ref> breaking the record for most-traveled first lady previously held by [[Pat Nixon]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=38 |title=First Lady Biography: Pat Nixon |publisher=[[National First Ladies' Library]] |access-date=October 18, 2007 |archive-date=May 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509084238/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=38 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She did not hold a [[security clearance]] or attend [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]] meetings, but played a role in U.S. diplomacy attaining its objectives.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/us/politics/26clinton.html |title=The Résumé Factor: Those 2 Terms as First Lady |author=Healy, Patrick |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 26, 2007}}</ref>

In [[Women's Rights Are Human Rights|a September 1995 speech]] before the [[Fourth World Conference on Women]] in Beijing, Clinton argued forcefully against practices that abused women around the world and in the People's Republic of China itself. She declared, "it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights".<ref name="nyt090695">{{Cite news |author=Tyler, Patrick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/06/world/hillary-clinton-in-china-details-abuse-of-women.html |title=Hillary Clinton, In China, Details Abuse of Women |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 6, 1995}}</ref> Delegates from over 180&nbsp;countries heard her declare, {{blockquote|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."<ref name="nw-doctrine"/>}} In delivering these remarks, Clinton resisted both internal administration and Chinese pressure to soften her remarks.<ref name="nyt122607"/><ref name="nw-doctrine"/> The speech became a key moment in the empowerment of women and years later women around the world would recite Clinton's key phrases.<ref>Hudson and Leidl 2015, pp. 7–8.</ref>

During the late 1990s, Clinton was one of the most prominent international figures to speak out against the treatment of [[Taliban treatment of women|Afghan women by the Taliban]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Taliban: Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia |author=Rashid, Ahmed |publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-86064-830-4 |author-link=Ahmed Rashid|title-link=Taliban: Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia }} pp.&nbsp;70, 182.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.feminist.org/research/report/94_toc.html |title=Feminist Majority Joins European Parliament's Call to End Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan |publisher=[[Feminist Majority]] |date=Spring 1998 |access-date=September 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830042222/http://www.feminist.org/research/report/94_toc.html <!-- Added by H3llBot --> |archive-date=August 30, 2007}}</ref> She helped create [[Vital Voices]], an international initiative sponsored by the U.S. to encourage the participation of women in the political processes of their countries.<ref>Hudson and Leidl 2015, pp. 25–26.</ref>