Rhetorical Analysis of “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” For a long time, women have been treated badly by the society that they live in. They have been killed because of dowry, they have been suffering from rape, and they haven’t been treated equal as men. Women were not allowed to take important decisions of their life, and they didn’t have a right to speak up for themselves. Therefore, Hillary Clinton was supporting women’s right in her speech, “Women’s right are Human rights” by talking about how women do not have equal rights as men, and how they have to go through tough situations. She also mentions that women’s rights should be equal to Human rights. This speech was given at the United Nations Fourth Conference of Women on September …show more content…
Hillary Clinton’s main purpose is to explain everyone how women’s rights are human rights. This is stated clearly as main claim and a conclusion in her speech. “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” (Clinton). She supports her main claim through inductive logic by giving examples of what women are suffering from. Clinton mentions about how the society is violating women’s right by stating how women are being set on fire, raped, abused, which is against the human rights. “It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small” (Clinton). She also clarifies the fact that these issues are still held in many …show more content…
She does a great job of explaining her point to her audience by repeating her main point over and over again. However, this speech was given twenty years ago, nothing was changed. At the time when Clinton gave her speech, it may not have been appreciated that much by the society. However, she mentioned this speech again in 2008, and this time, many more people came to know the reality of how women are being treated in other countries. Her speech was also considered influential in women’s rights movement. Due to her speech, many women in China, are able to speak for themselves now. However, Women in other countries like India, Pakistan, Iraq, etc. are still suffering from these kinds of violations. We hope that as time goes by, women in other countries are also free from their suffering from these
Charlotte Taft once said “Women who have abortions do so because they value life and because they take very seriously the responsibilities that come not just with birth, but with nurturing a human being”. The Editorial Board at The New York Times believes in this statement as well. The Editorial Board published an editorial on June 27, 2016 titled “A major Victory for Abortion Rights”. The article published, is about a change in Texas 's anti-abortion law and is intended for woman who can or will bear children. The editorial was created to persuade these women that if another woman who is pregnant and cannot keep the unborn child or does not want to keep the child, that these women should have the right to abort the embryo or fetus legally.
Human rights clearly include women’s rights and the fact that they are still considered as two different topics is disgraceful. In Aristotle’s Rhetorical logos are referred to as “the structure and content of text”. Clinton is able to associate women’s rights and human’s rights when she states that “If the term 'women 's rights ' were to be interchangeable with the term 'human rights ' the world community would be a better place because human rights effect the women who raise the world 's children, care for the elderly, run companies, work in hospitals, right for better education and better health care”. She wants to convince the audience to feel as if both phrases are identical to one another and uses logos to accomplish that. According to the data world bank, “approximately 50 percent of the world population is female”, and Clinton’s use of this logo allows the audiences’ perspective to change.
The National Woman 's Rights Convention (1850), also known as the Worcester Convention, or the First Worcester Convention was held in Brinkley Hall between October 23 and 24 1850 and was the initial gathering of advocates directed towards the development of a nationwide woman 's organization. The convention, being the first of two to be held in Worcester, had nearly one thousand persons in attendance from a number of states who represented a range of socioeconomic classes and involved many of the prominent civil rights, gender, and race advocates of the period. Attendees included persons such as William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), Frederick Douglas (1818-1895), Angelina Grimké (1805-1897), Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), Sojourner Truth
Imagine a world where women are objectified, treated as property, and have their opinions ignored. Visualization is hard, is it not? Prior to the Women’s Rights Movement, women were denied basic rights, such as the right to vote. As of 2014, 50% of all marriages end in divorce, but before the movement, women were not allowed to divorce their husbands. Even those who had committed crimes against them, such as rape (even though marital rape was not criminalized until 1993) or domestic abuse.
“The Fundamental Principle of a Republic” is a speech about women’s suffrage spoken by Anna Howard Shaw. This specific speech was given at the New York State equal suffrage campaign at the City Opera House in Ogdensburg, New York on June 21, 1915. Anna Howard Shaw was a well-known suffrage orator and social reformer. In addition to talking about women’s suffrage, this speech mentions how we, as a country, say we are a Republic but we really aren’t.
Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered her speech “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” September 5, 1995 while speaking at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China with the intent to educate and spread awareness in regards to the rights and treatment of women around the world, while encouraging women to take initiative and highlight the potential women have if presented with the opportunity of equality. Early in Clinton’s speech, she uses the power of ethos to establish her credibility and continues to build upon it throughout, bringing attention to the fact she has had years of experience fighting for change among people of all kinds. Clinton convinces listeners that she has made women’s rights a priority in her life
If the “misogyny” speech was given by a male representative it would not have maximum effect as the same speech given by a female. This is because the speeches subject is personalised to the speech 's author, in this case Julia Gillard. Because of this Gillard 's, gender in the speech cannot be labelled as hypocritical towards female
The Declaration of Sentiment of 1848 states "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. " This statement proves that woman are trying to fight for the same unalienable rights
Her call for action for women was not well appreciated so simply talking about it gave her the negativity by others and the violence by the
We all know that women didn 't have as many rights as men, and they still don 't. Women can now do more than they used to, but they still aren 't equal with men. They have had to fight for so many things like the right to vote and to be equal to men. The 19th amendment, the one that gave women the right to vote, brought us a big step closer. The Equal Rights Movement also gave us the chance to have as many rights as men. Women have always stayed home, cleaned the house, and didn 't even get an education.
Both feminist and relativist critiques highlighted the claim that the human rights are universal (Bunting 1993; Kandi- yoti 1995:19; and An-Na 'im 1994:171-2) . The feminist focusing on the practice of the human right universality rather than the theory, but the relativist is otherwise they focusing on both theory and
The author’s purpose and point of view are stated clearly by an international bill of rights for women that the rest of the United Nation has ratified except for 7 countries including the United States. She uses pathos to tell the readers that the United States does not have the same rights for women as other countries to show an emotional response about how the U.S. does not find these rights equal to everyone. There is many constitutions around the world including the U.S. Constitution but 32 of the constitutions around the world do not have a gender equality guarantee, which the author shows when she writes, “The Equal Rights Amendment, meant to give women in America the sort of explicit protections now offered in constitutions across the globe, was introduced to Congress in 1923. Both the houses of Congress passed it in 1972. It them went to state legislatures, requiring the ratification of 38 states.
Introduction Hook: Since the beginning of time, the existence of women and men has been undeniably considered as one of the integral factors that forms our society as it is today. Despite their parallel existence and contribution to the growth of the society, it was considered that women were not treated equal to men both in domestic and working circumstances, leading to a wave of movements demanding equal rights for women, known as feminism. Despite its success in claiming benefits for mistreated women in the past, recent feminism actions and point of views have gone above their original purpose, and created negative impacts and false mindset as its consequences, 2. Credibility I have done some in-depth research about this matter to prepare for the speech, and I myself do not stand for contemporary feminist. 3.
She does not deny that there have been indisputable gains that have elevated the lives of women especially in the United States. There are also many feminist that have been campaigning for the equal rights of women. However, those efforts are being mistaken for milestones in women’s equality to a point that little is being done to address inequality. In the article she gives examples of George Sodini, who opened fire at a gym killing three women and injuring nine. When an Amish school in Pennsylvania was attacked by a gunman, he seemed to have specifically targeted the girls.
A guarantee against factors affecting the human dignity, all forms of violence such as domestic violence, sexual violence, rape, and violence inside and outside the family that affect the honour and reputation are incorporated in the Declaration. The provision is intended for the protection of women because women are often subjected to sex based discrimination and often subjected to violence inside and outside the