Women's Rights are Human Rights -- Hillary Rodham Clinton

Delivered 5 September 1995 • Beijing, China

1995 年 9 月 5 日交付 • 中国北京

Thank you very much , Gertrude Mongella , for your dedicated work that has brought us to this point , distinguished delegates , and guests:

非常感谢格特鲁德·蒙盖拉 (Gertrude Mongella) 的辛勤工作，使我们走到了这一步，尊敬的代表们和来宾：

I would like to thank the Secretary General for inviting me to be part of this important United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women .

我要感谢秘书长邀请我参加这次重要的联合国第四次世界妇女大会。

This is truly a celebration , a celebration of the contributions women make in every aspect of life: in the home , on the job , in the community , as mothers , wives , sisters , daughters , learners , workers , citizens , and leaders.

这确实是一次庆祝活动，庆祝妇女在生活的各个方面做出的贡献：在家庭、工作中、在社区中，作为母亲、妻子、姐妹、女儿、学习者、工人、公民和领导者。

It is also a coming together , much the way women come together every day in every country.

这也是一种聚集，就像每个国家的女性每天聚集在一起的方式一样。

We come together in fields and factories , in village markets and supermarkets , in living rooms and board rooms.

我们聚集在田野和工厂、乡村市场和超市、客厅和会议室。

Whether it is while playing with our children in the park , or washing clothes in a river , or taking a break at the office water cooler , we come together and talk about our aspirations and concern.

无论是在公园里和孩子们玩耍，还是在河边洗衣服，或者在办公室饮水机旁休息时，我们都会聚在一起谈论我们的愿望和担忧。

And time and again , our talk turns to our children and our families.

我们的谈话一次又一次地转向我们的孩子和家庭。

However different we may appear , there is far more that unites us than divides us.

无论我们看起来多么不同，团结我们的因素远多于分裂我们的因素。

We share a common future , and we are here to find common ground so that we may help bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world , and in so doing bring new strength and stability to families as well.

我们拥有共同的未来，我们来这里是为了寻找共同点，以便我们可以帮助为世界各地的妇女和女孩带来新的尊严和尊重，并以此为家庭带来新的力量和稳定。

By gathering in Beijing , we are focusing world attention on issues that matter most in our lives -- the lives of women and their families: access to education , health care , jobs and credit , the chance to enjoy basic legal and human rights and to participate fully in the political life of our countries.

通过齐聚北京，我们将全世界的注意力集中在我们生活中最重要的问题上——妇女及其家庭的生活：获得教育、医疗保健、就业和信贷的机会，享受基本法律和人权以及充分参与我们各国政治生活的机会。

There are some who question the reason for this conference.

有人质疑召开这次会议的原因。

Let them listen to the voices of women in their homes , neighborhoods , and workplaces.

让她们在家庭、社区和工作场所聆听女性的声音。

There are some who wonder whether the lives of women and girls matter to economic and political progress around the globe.

有些人想知道妇女和女孩的生活对全球经济和政治进步是否重要。

Let them look at the women gathered here and at Huairou -- the homemakers and nurses , the teachers and lawyers , the policymakers and women who run their own businesses.

让他们看看聚集在这里和怀柔的妇女——家庭主妇和护士、教师和律师、政策制定者和经营自己企业的妇女。

It is conferences like this that compel governments and peoples everywhere to listen , look , and face the world ’ s most pressing problems.

正是这样的会议迫使世界各地的政府和人民倾听、审视和面对世界上最紧迫的问题。

Wasn ’ t it after all -- after the women ’ s conference in Nairobi ten years ago that the world focused for the first time on the crisis of domestic violence?

毕竟，十年前的内罗毕妇女会议之后，世界不正是第一次关注家庭暴力危机吗？

Earlier today , I participated in a World Health Organization forum.

今天早些时候，我参加了世界卫生组织的论坛。

In that forum , we talked about ways that government officials , NGOs , and individual citizens are working to address the health problems of women and girls.

在该论坛中，我们讨论了政府官员、非政府组织和公民个人努力解决妇女和女童健康问题的方式。

Tomorrow , I will attend a gathering of the United Nations Development Fund for Women .

明天我将出席联合国妇女发展基金的聚会。

There , the discussion will focus on local -- and highly successful -- programs that give hard-working women access to credit so they can improve their own lives and the lives of their families.

在那里，讨论将集中在当地的、非常成功的项目上，这些项目为勤劳的妇女提供信贷机会，以便她们能够改善自己和家人的生活。

What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated , their families will flourish.

我们在世界各地了解到，如果女性健康且受过教育，她们的家庭就会繁荣。

If women are free from violence , their families will flourish.

如果妇女免受暴力，她们的家庭就会繁荣。

If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society , their families will flourish.

如果妇女有机会作为社会上充分、平等的伙伴工作和赚钱，她们的家庭就会繁荣。

And when families flourish , communities and nations do as well.

当家庭繁荣时，社区和国家也会繁荣。

That is why every woman , every man , every child , every family , and every nation on this planet does have a stake in the discussion that takes place here.

这就是为什么这个星球上的每个女人、每个男人、每个孩子、每个家庭和每个国家都与这里进行的讨论有利害关系。

Over the past 25 years , I have worked persistently on issues relating to women , children , and families.

25年来，我坚持不懈地致力于妇女、儿童和家庭问题。

Over the past two and a half years , I ’ ve had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my own country and around the world.

在过去的两年半中，我有机会更多地了解我国和世界各地女性面临的挑战。

I have met new mothers in Indonesia , who come together regularly in their village to discuss nutrition , family planning , and baby care.

我在印度尼西亚遇到了新妈妈，她们定期在村里聚在一起讨论营养、计划生育和婴儿护理问题。

I have met working parents in Denmark who talk about the comfort they feel in knowing that their children can be cared for in safe , and nurturing after-school centers.

我在丹麦遇到过在职父母，他们谈到了当他们知道自己的孩子可以在安全、有教养的课外中心得到照顾时感到的安慰。

I have met women in South Africa who helped lead the struggle to end apartheid and are now helping to build a new democracy.

我在南非遇到了一些妇女，她们帮助领导了结束种族隔离的斗争，现在正在帮助建立一个新的民主国家。

I have met with the leading women of my own hemisphere who are working every day to promote literacy and better health care for children in their countries.

我会见了我们所在半球的杰出女性，她们每​​天都在努力提高本国儿童的识字率和更好的医疗保健水平。

I have met women in India and Bangladesh who are taking out small loans to buy milk cows , or rickshaws , or thread in order to create a livelihood for themselves and their families.

我遇到过印度和孟加拉国的妇女，她们借小额贷款购买奶牛、人力车或纱线，以便为自己和家人创造生计。

I have met the doctors and nurses in Belarus and Ukraine who are trying to keep children alive in the aftermath of Chernobyl .

我会见了白俄罗斯和乌克兰的医生和护士，他们在切尔诺贝利事故后努力挽救儿童的生命。

The great challenge of this conference is to give voice to women everywhere whose experiences go unnoticed , whose words go unheard.

这次会议面临的巨大挑战是让世界各地的妇女发出声音，她们的经历被忽视，她们的话语被忽视。

Women comprise more than half the world ’ s population , 70% of the world ’ s poor , and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write.

妇女占世界人口的一半以上、世界贫困人口的 70%、以及三分之二未受过读写教育的人。

We are the primary caretakers for most of the world ’ s children and elderly.

我们是世界上大多数儿童和老人的主要照顾者。

Yet much of the work we do is not valued -- not by economists , not by historians , not by popular culture , not by government leaders.

然而，我们所做的许多工作并没有受到经济学家、历史学家、流行文化和政府领导人的重视。

At this very moment , as we sit here , women around the world are giving birth , raising children , cooking meals , washing clothes , cleaning houses , planting crops , working on assembly lines , running companies , and running countries.

此时此刻，当我们坐在这里时，世界各地的妇女正在生孩子、养孩子、做饭、洗衣服、打扫房屋、种植庄稼、在流水线上工作、经营公司、管理国家。

Women also are dying from diseases that should have been prevented or treated.

妇女也死于本应预防或治疗的疾病。

They are watching their children succumb to malnutrition caused by poverty and economic deprivation.

他们眼睁睁地看着自己的孩子死于贫困和经济匮乏造成的营养不良。

They are being denied the right to go to school by their own fathers and brothers.

他们的父亲和兄弟剥夺了他们上学的权利。

They are being forced into prostitution , and they are being barred from the bank lending offices and banned from the ballot box.

她们被迫卖淫，被禁止进入银行贷款办公室，并被禁止进入投票箱。

Those of us who have the opportunity to be here have the responsibility to speak for those who could not.

我们这些有机会来到这里的人有责任为那些没有机会来到这里的人发言。

As an American , I want to speak for those women in my own country , women who are raising children on the minimum wage , women who can ’ t afford health care or child care , women whose lives are threatened by violence , including violence in their own homes.

作为一名美国人，我想为我自己国家的那些妇女说话，她们以最低工资养育孩子，无力承担医疗保健或儿童保育费用，生命受到暴力（包括自己家庭中的暴力）威胁的妇女。

I want to speak up for mothers who are fighting for good schools , safe neighborhoods , clean air , and clean airwaves; for older women , some of them widows , who find that , after raising their families , their skills and life experiences are not valued in the marketplace; for women who are working all night as nurses , hotel clerks , or fast food chefs so that they can be at home during the day with their children; and for women everywhere who simply don ’ t have time to do everything they are called upon to do each and every day.

我想为那些为好学校、安全社区、清洁空气和干净电波而奋斗的母亲们发声；对于老年妇女来说，其中一些是寡妇，她们发现在养家糊口后，她们的技能和生活经历在市场上不被重视；适合那些整夜工作的护士、酒店职员或快餐厨师的女性，这样她们白天就可以在家照顾孩子；对于世界各地那些根本没有时间做每天需要做的事情的女性来说。

Speaking to you today , I speak for them , just as each of us speaks for women around the world who are denied the chance to go to school , or see a doctor , or own property , or have a say about the direction of their lives , simply because they are women.

今天对你们讲话，我代表她们发言，就像我们每个人代表世界各地的女性发言一样，她们被剥夺了上学、看病、拥有财产或对自己生活方向发表意见的机会，仅仅因为她们是女性。

The truth is that most women around the world work both inside and outside the home , usually by necessity.

事实上，世界上大多数女性都在家庭内外工作，通常是出于必要。

We need to understand there is no one formula for how women should lead our lives.

我们需要明白，对于女性应该如何生活，没有一个固定的公式。

That is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family.

这就是为什么我们必须尊重每个女性为自己和家人做出的选择。

Every woman deserves the chance to realize her own God-given potential.

每个女人都应该有机会实现上帝赋予的潜力。

But we must recognize that women will never gain full dignity until their human rights are respected and protected.

但我们必须认识到，除非妇女的人权得到尊重和保护，否则她们永远无法获得充分的尊严。

Our goals for this conference , to strengthen families and societies by empowering women to take greater control over their own destinies , cannot be fully achieved unless all governments -- here and around the world -- accept their responsibility to protect and promote internationally recognized human rights.

我们本次会议的目标是通过赋予妇女更大的权力来加强家庭和社会，让她们更好地掌控自己的命运，除非各国政府——无论是在这里还是世界各地——都承担起保护和促进国际公认的人权的责任，否则就无法完全实现。

The -- The international community has long acknowledged and recently reaffirmed at Vienna that both women and men are entitled to a range of protections and personal freedoms , from the right of personal security to the right to determine freely the number and spacing of the children they bear.

国际社会早已承认并最近在维也纳重申，妇女和男子都有权享有一系列保护和个人自由，从人身安全权到自由决定生育子女数量和生育间隔的权利。

No one -- No one should be forced to remain silent for fear of religious or political persecution , arrest , abuse , or torture.

没有人——任何人都不应因为害怕宗教或政治迫害、逮捕、虐待或酷刑而被迫保持沉默。

Tragically , women are most often the ones whose human rights are violated.

可悲的是，妇女的人权最常受到侵犯。

Even now , in the late 20th century , the rape of women continues to be used as an instrument of armed conflict.

即使在20世纪末的现在，强奸妇女仍然被用作武装冲突的工具。

Women and children make up a large majority of the world ’ s refugees.

妇女和儿童占世界难民的绝大多数。

And when women are excluded from the political process , they become even more vulnerable to abuse.

当妇女被排除在政治进程之外时，她们就更容易受到虐待。

I believe that now , on the eve of a new millennium , it is time to break the silence.

我相信现在，在新千年的前夕，是打破沉默的时候了。

It is time for us to say here in Beijing , and for the world to hear , that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women ’ s rights as separate from human rights.

现在是我们在北京向全世界宣告的时候了，将妇女权利与人权分开讨论已经不再被接受。

These abuses have continued because , for too long , the history of women has been a history of silence.

这些虐待行为之所以持续存在，是因为长期以来，女性的历史一直是一部沉默的历史。

Even today , there are those who are trying to silence our words.

即使在今天，仍然有人试图压制我们的言论。

But the voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loudly and clearly:

但这次会议和怀柔妇女的声音必须大声而清晰地听到：

It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food , or drowned , or suffocated , or their spines broken , simply because they are born girls.

当婴儿仅仅因为生来是女孩而被剥夺食物、被淹死、被窒息、或脊椎折断，这是对人权的侵犯。

It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed -- and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated.

当妇女和女童因人类的贪婪而被卖淫为奴时，这是对人权的侵犯，不应再容忍为这种做法辩护的各种理由。

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.

妇女因为嫁妆太少而被浇上汽油、纵火焚烧，这是对人权的侵犯。

It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.

当个别妇女在自己的社区遭到强奸，以及成千上万的妇女作为一种策略或战利品而遭受强奸时，这是对人权的侵犯。

It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives.

全球 14 岁至 44 岁女性在自己家中遭受亲属暴力是导致她们死亡的主要原因，这是对人权的侵犯。

It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.

当年轻女孩遭受痛苦且有辱人格的切割生殖器官的做法时，这是对人权的侵犯。

It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families , and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.

当妇女被剥夺计划自己家庭的权利，包括被迫堕胎或违背她们的意愿绝育时，这是对人权的侵犯。

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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 2 once and for all.

如果说这次会议传达出一个信息，那就是人权就是妇女的权利，妇女的权利就是人权2一劳永逸。

Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely -- and the right to be heard.

我们不要忘记，这些权利包括自由言论的权利和表达意见的权利。

Women must enjoy the rights to participate fully in the social and political lives of their countries , if we want freedom and democracy to thrive and endure.

如果我们希望自由和民主蓬勃发展并持久，妇女就必须享有充分参与本国社会和政治生活的权利。

It is indefensible that many women in nongovernmental organizations who wished to participate in this conference have not been able to attend -- or have been prohibited from fully taking part.

不可原谅的是，非政府组织中许多希望参加这次会议的妇女未能出席，或者被禁止充分参加。

Let me be clear.

让我说清楚。

Freedom means the right of people to assemble , organize , and debate openly.

自由意味着人们公开集会、组织和辩论的权利。

It means respecting the views of those who may disagree with the views of their governments.

这意味着尊重那些可能不同意其政府观点的人的观点。

It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them , mistreating them , or denying them their freedom or dignity because of the peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions.

这意味着不将公民从他们的亲人身边带走，监禁他们，虐待他们，或者因为他们和平表达想法和意见而剥夺他们的自由或尊严。

In my country , we recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of Women ’ s Suffrage .

在我国，我们最近庆祝了妇女选举权 75 周年。

It took 150 years after the signing of our Declaration of Independence for women to win the right to vote.

《独立宣言》签署后，妇女花了 150 年才赢得投票权。

It took 72 years of organized struggle , before that happened , on the part of many courageous women and men.

在这之前，许多勇敢的男女进行了 72 年的有组织斗争。

It was one of America ’ s most divisive philosophical wars.

这是美国最具分裂性的哲学战争之一。

But it was a bloodless war.

但这是一场不流血的战争。

Suffrage was achieved without a shot being fired.

不费一枪一弹就实现了选举权。

But we have also been reminded , in V-J Day observances last weekend , of the good that comes when men and women join together to combat the forces of tyranny and to build a better world.

但在上周末的抗战胜利日纪念活动中，我们也被提醒，当男人和女人联合起来对抗暴政势力并建设一个更美好的世界时，将会带来美好的结果。

We have seen peace prevail in most places for a half century.

半个世纪以来，我们看到大多数地方都实现了和平。

We have avoided another world war.

我们避免了另一场世界大战。

But we have not solved older , deeply-rooted problems that continue to diminish the potential of half the world ’ s population.

但我们还没有解决古老的、根深蒂固的问题，这些问题继续削弱世界一半人口的潜力。

Now it is the time to act on behalf of women everywhere.

现在是代表世界各地女性采取行动的时候了。

If we take bold steps to better the lives of women , we will be taking bold steps to better the lives of children and families too.

如果我们采取大胆的步骤来改善妇女的生活，我们也将采取大胆的步骤来改善儿童和家庭的生活。

Families rely on mothers and wives for emotional support and care.

家庭依靠母亲和妻子的情感支持和照顾。

Families rely on women for labor in the home.

家庭依靠妇女做家务。

And increasingly , everywhere , families rely on women for income needed to raise healthy children and care for other relatives.

世界各地的家庭越来越依赖妇女获得抚养健康孩子和照顾其他亲属所需的收入。

As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace everywhere in the world , as long as girls and women are valued less , fed less , fed last , overworked , underpaid , not schooled , subjected to violence in and outside their homes -- the potential of the human family to create a peaceful , prosperous world will not be realized.

只要歧视和不平等现象在世界各地依然普遍存在，只要女童和妇女的价值较低、吃得较少、吃得最后、工作过度、报酬过低、无法上学、遭受家庭内外的暴力——人类大家庭创造一个和平、繁荣世界的潜力就无法实现。

Let -- Let this conference be our -- and the world ’ s -- call to action.

让——让这次会议成为我们——以及全世界——采取行动的号召。

Let us heed that call so we can create a world in which every woman is treated with respect and dignity , every boy and girl is loved and cared for equally , and every family has the hope of a strong and stable future.

让我们响应这一号召，以便我们能够创造一个每个妇女都受到尊重和尊严的世界，每个男孩和女孩都受到平等的爱和照顾，每个家庭都有一个强大和稳定的未来的希望。

That is the work before you.

这就是你面前的工作。

That is the work before all of us who have a vision of the world we want to see -- for our children and our grandchildren.

这是摆在我们所有人面前的工作，他们对我们希望为我们的子孙后代看到的世界抱有愿景。

The time is now.

现在是时候了。

We must move beyond rhetoric.

我们必须超越言辞。

We must move beyond recognition of problems to working together , to have the comment efforts to build that common ground we hope to see.

我们必须超越对问题的认识，共同努力，努力建立我们希望看到的共同点。

God ’ s blessing on you , your work , and all who will benefit from it.

上帝祝福你、你的工作以及所有从中受益的人。