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1:00 AM Gender equality must be a priority, she says in a rousing International Womens Day speech.

By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared Friday that achieving equality for women and girls is the great unfinished business of the 21st century.

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks out for womens rights at U.N. headquarters Friday.

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The potential 2016 presidential candidate galvanized the U.N. commemoration of International Womens Day, repeating her resounding declaration as first lady at the 1995 U.N. womens conference in Beijing that human rights are womens rights and womens rights are human rights.

Clinton said that important progress has been made, citing the increasing number of girls in school and women in elected office, and the repeal of many discriminatory laws.

Yet for all we have achieved together, this remains the great unfinished business of the 21st century, she said.

In the nearly two decades since Beijing, Clinton said, no country in the world has achieved full participation, and women and girls still comprise the majority of the worlds unhealthy, unfed and unpaid.

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Hillary Clinton urges the U.N. to focus on womens rights