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With her rallying cry for gender equality turning 30 this year, Mrs. Clinton says President Trump and autocratic leaders abroad are steadily dismantling decades of progress.
Sept. 22, 2025, 7:12 a.m. ET
Three decades after her declaration in Beijing that “women’s rights are human rights,” Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning that those rights are under siege by the Trump administration and autocratic leaders abroad.
In a recent interview, Mrs. Clinton described a “coordinated, deliberate effort to dismantle the progress toward women’s equality.” With a new report on the state of gender equality tied to the anniversary of her famous 1995 speech, she hopes to revive her remarks as a rallying cry.
“This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for women across the world, who have benefited from the changes in laws, regulations and norms over the last 30 years, to realize that there are strong forces at work to try to turn the clocks back,” she said.
Mrs. Clinton, who served as secretary of state under President Barack Obama, linked her findings of a decline in women’s rights to a global resurgence in authoritarianism, noting that regression on women’s freedom is often an early sign of a weakened democracy.
