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Sweden and Yemen at the top and bottom of the UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index

Published: Monday, January 02, 2012

'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.'

In Beijing in 1995, Hillary Rodham Clinton made her now historic speech on women's rights to the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women.

There is debate as to how much progress has been made in the 16 years since then, and it is unarguably lamentable that more has not been made, but steps are certainly being taken to equate women's rights with human rights and development.

One of them is the inclusion of the Gender Inequality Index in the Human Development Report (HDR), the 2011 edition of which was published in November.

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