Read Every Word of Madeleine Albright's Powerful Glamour Woman of the Year Speech
glamour.comGlamour honored Albright as a for her work as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. (She would go on to become the Secretary of State in 1997.) “One of just seven women among the U.N.'s 185 ambassadors—and the only woman on its top-level Security Council—Albright believes that women's issues like family planning and economic empowerment are as important a part of world politics as treaties and missiles,” Glamour wrote in the profile of the diplomat for the magazine. “She sent that message as chair of the U.S.
delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: 'Coerced abortions and sterilizations, children sold into prostitution, genital mutilation, dowry murders, girls who just turn up ”missing"… Some say this is all cultural and there is nothing we can do about it.
I say it's criminal, and we all have an obligation to stop it.”Albright's speech at the awards ceremony later that year also exemplifies how dedicated Albright was toward advancing women across the globe.
Her speech, in full, below: “It is a great honor to represent the United States of America in the United Nations. And I think from hearing about my background you know for someone who wasn't born here to be able to sit behind that sign every day that says ‘the United States’ is the highest honor of all. "When I got to the U.N.
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