MultiVu Digital Center Feed: Clinton Says More Needs to be Done to Improve Women's Lives, Adding That the Marginalization of Women is Morally, Politically, Economically and Socially Unacceptable

WASHINGTON, January 9 - FORMAT: Sound-bites

STORY SUMMARY: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks
on the 15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and
Development

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CLIP CONTAINING 4 SOUND-BITES and 1 B-roll TRT 4:33

SOUND-BITES:

Sound-bite #1 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Summary: Secretary Clinton says while progress has been made in improving
the lives of women worldwide, inequities still remain.

Verbatim: "We have made measurable progress since 1984 in improving the
health and the lives of women and children, especially girls. For example,
the use of modern contraceptives worldwide has increased from under 10
percent in the 1960s to 43 per cent in 2008. We have greater access to
neonatal care, including medicines that prevent the spread of HIV from mother
to child. We've significantly increased child survival rates, the number of
girls enrolled in schools around the world has gone up and we've come closer
to a less measurable but still critical goal, the integration of gender into
a range of global programs including our efforts through the United Nations
to bring an end to sexual and gender-based violence in places of conflict.
However, vast inequities remain. Too often, still today, in 2010 women and
girls bear the burden of regional and global crises - whether it's an
economic downturn or climate change or political instability. They still are
the majority of the world's poor, unschooled, unhealthy and underfed."

TRT 1:30

Sound-bite #2 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Summary: Secretary Clinton says the ongoing marginalization of women is
unacceptable.

Verbatim: "For if we believe that human rights are women's rights, and
women's rights are human rights, then we cannot accept the ongoing
marginalization of half the world's population - we cannot accept it morally,
politically, socially or economically."

TRT 0:17

Sound-bite #3 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Summary: Secretary Clinton

Verbatim: "This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive
health care through the United Nations Population Fund and more funding is on
the way. (applause) The U.S. congress recently appropriated more than $648
million dollars in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive
health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a
decade, since we last had a Democratic president, I might add. In addition to
new funding, we've launched a new program that will be the centerpiece of our
foreign policy, the Global Health Initiative, which commits us to spending
$63 billion dollars over 6 years to improve global health by investing in
efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality, prevent millions of
unintended pregnancies, and avert millions of new HIV infections among other
goals. This initiative will employ a new approach to fighting disease and
promoting health. It will address interrelated heath challenges together."

TRT 1:10

Sound-bite #4 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Summary: Secretary Clinton

Verbatim: "I've been in many places in many part of the world where the
rich, the educated, the well-off, the connected, the powerful, the elite had
access to every single form of health care — and yet is was denied….that
is unacceptable. So part of what we need to do is to provide services to
those who need them but to change the minds and attitudes of those who can be
responsible for delivering those services in countries around the world."

TRT 0:51

B-roll - Secretary Clinton at podium

TRT: 0:22

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