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Hillary Clinton Urges Attention to Gulf War Ailments

By TODD S. PURDUM
Published: August 15, 1995
Hillary Rodham Clinton urged a Presidential commission today to leave no stone unturned in investigating why thousands of veterans of the Persian Gulf war returned with various illnesses, even as a panel of independent medical experts suggested that the Pentagon might have been too hasty in concluding that there was no evidence of a "gulf war syndrome."

"No issue is off-limits and every reasonable inquiry should be pursued," Mrs. Clinton told the first meeting of the President's Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses. President Clinton formed the commission to evaluate the undiagnosed illnesses that have afflicted many who served in the Persian Gulf during military operations in late 1990 and early 1991.

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Mrs. Clinton has taken an interest in the issue since she received complaints from veterans during her work on health care last year, and the commission invited her to speak.

Addressing the group today at the Capital Hilton here, she said, "Thousands of veterans who were healthy when they left for the gulf war are now ill." She added, "Based on the research to date, however, experts have concluded that there is not enough evidence to call this a syndrome."

Source:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4DF163FF936A2575BC0A963958260


HILLARY CLINTON, IN CHINA, DETAILS ABUSE OF WOMEN

By PATRICK E. TYLER
Published: September 6, 1995
Speaking more forcefully on human rights than any American dignitary has on Chinese soil, Hillary Rodham Clinton catalogued a devastating litany of abuse that has afflicted women around the world today and criticized China for seeking to limit free and open discussion of women's issues here.

"It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights," Mrs. Clinton told the Fourth World Conference on Women assembled here.

"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," Mrs. Clinton said, or "when women and girls are sold into slavery or prostitution for human greed.

"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" she continued, or "when thousands of women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war."

Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEFDF133DF935A3575AC0A963958260


USAID Announces $240 Million Microenterprise Initiative
(Hillary Clinton offers enthusiastic support)
By Berta Gomez, USIA Staff Writer, July 24, 1997

Washington. The United States is allocating $240 million over two years to make small, low-interest loans available to the world's poorest families, officials said July 24.

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton joined lawmakers and administration officials at a Capitol Hill ceremony renewing the 1994 Microenterprise Development Initiative, through which the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funds lending and training programs that help poor families start or expand small businesses.

"Microcredit is one of the strongest strategies we can employ to assist people to help themselves," the first lady said.

Recipient organizations have included the Jordanian Women's Development Society, Ugafode in Uganda, the Janashakthi Bank Society in Sri Lanka, Banco Solidario in Ecuador and the Rural Bankers' Association of the Philippines.

The renewed USAID program builds on more than 15 years of support for microenterprise as a tool for development. It also builds on the momentum of the first-ever Microcredit Summit in Washington this past February, where donor governments, multilateral banks and non-governmental organizations pledged to make microcredit services available to 100 million families worldwide by the year 2005. Those services now reach an estimated 8 to 10 million families.

"Microenterprise fosters progress at all levels," Hillary Clinton said in a statement. "By empowering people at the grassroots, it deepens the commitment of citizens to democracy. By providing credit to the poor, it allows ever more men and women to pull themselves out of poverty and enter the economic mainstream. By offering new opportunities to women, it moves us all closer to making real the dream of equality."

Source: http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/jana3.htm


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