Women’s rights, 20 years after the Beijing Declaration

What will it take to have gender equality around the world?

“Women’s rights are human rights.” So said the Beijing conference on women twenty years ago. But two decades after what some call the most progressive plan ever for advancing women’s rights, what’s really changed? Join the conversation Monday @1930 GMT.

On this episode of The Stream, we speak with:

Irene Santiago @irenesantiago
Founder, Women Seriously!
womenseriously.org

Luz Mendez
Member of the National Union of Guatemalan Women

Sophia Pierre-Antoine @SophiaPA29
Feminist activist
ywcahaiti.org

Vivian Onano @vivianonano
Youth Advisor, UN Women

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