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Jen the Michigander


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Melanie Verveer: ambassador for women's issues (WaPo 11/19/09)
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It's a short article, so I'll post the whole thing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111803666.html?wprss=rss_politics/fedpage

Melanne Verveer and Hillary Rodham Clinton go back 40 years, political soul mates connected by like-minded activism and causes -- from George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign to women's rights.

Verveer was working for the then-first lady when Clinton delivered her groundbreaking speech in Beijing in 1995, declaring that women's rights can't be separated from human rights.

So it surprised no one when Secretary of State Clinton tapped Verveer as the first ambassador-at-large for global women's issues.

The recognition of crises affecting women worldwide, Verveer said, "has been evolutionary. If you look back to the '90s . . . there weren't even cables written from posts about what was happening on issues of concern to women that were really matters for our foreign policy consideration."

Verveer has been a vocal advocate for women for three decades. After leaving the Clinton White House, she co-founded the Vital Voices Global Partnership, which grooms women in developing countries for leadership roles in politics and government.

At the State Department, she has been particularly focused on the global consequences of violence against women.

"Women may not know what was in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. . . . But they do know deep inside of them, they shouldn't be victims of abuse, they should have the right to participate in the political and economic lives of their society, the right to go to school," she said.

Just down the hall at State works her husband, Philip, the new coordinator for international communications and information policy.

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What, you mean she picked someone who had expertise and passion and commitment in that area?  Wow, what a concept!  Maybe she should share that idea with the usurper, so he can use it to pick his next czar, rather than using the question "Who will pay me the most?"!

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Great article and more proof that Hillary picks people based on experience and Obama picks people based on fiancial needs.

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Hillary has an amazing network of friends who are so smart, so competent. Good for her.

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