women making up more than half of the U.S.population while occupying only 17 percent of the seats in U.S Congress, and constituting less than three percent of Fortune 500 company chief executive officers (SPEAKING) Madeleine Albright, who served as Secretary of State during the Clinton administration, pointed to the challenges women still face globally in achieving the same basic rights and dignity as men.
VOA: standard.2010.03.08
Because even in the Clinton Administration, around 1997, after we refused to vote for the International Criminal Court.
因为即使在克林顿执政期间,大约在1997年左右,在我们拒绝,给国际刑事法庭投票之后。
Afganistan is expected to dominate Friday's agenda, and Mrs.Clinton will brief ministers on the administration's strategy.
VOA: standard.2009.12.03
ECOWAS is threatening sanctions. Secretary Clinton told reporters that the Obama administration is working with partners, including ECOWAS, to decide the best way forward in Niger.
VOA: standard.2009.08.14
Clinton said despite the outreach to Burma, the Obama administration is not dropping human rights related sanctions, which include a virtually total U.S.trade ban against that country.
VOA: standard.2009.11.12
But Secretary Clinton says it is not going to halt an Obama administration effort to get the Chinese-sponsored six-party talks in North Korea's nuclear program going again.
VOA: standard.2009.11.11
Secretary Clinton says President Sirleaf's administration is taking action to increase transparency with a strong Anti-Corruption Commission at the center of efforts to rebuild from years of civil war.
VOA: standard.2009.08.14
The Obama administration opposed the resolution. After the measure passed, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the administration does not believe the full House of Representatives will or should vote on the resolution.
VOA: standard.2010.03.19
At at a joint press event with Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad al-Sabah, Hillary Clinton made clear that the Obama administration wants to see the early resumption of full-scale direct negotiations.
VOA: standard.2010.04.30
One week after U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Congress that the Obama administration will work with lawmakers to impose "crippling" sanctions against Iran, Senate lawmakers introduced legislation designed to help accomplish just that.
VOA: standard.2009.04.28
Clinton arrived here a day after the Obama administration announced it was sending more money, technology and manpower to secure the Mexican border and help Mexican authorities in their battle with drug cartels.
VOA: standard.2009.03.25
In her talk with reporters, Secretary Clinton praised the Calderon administration's performance in the drug fight, saying that Mexican forces are often out-gunned by drug gangs armed with military-style weapons bought in the United States.
VOA: standard.2009.03.25
And we'll have to see how this unfolds." Clinton declined to say whether the Obama administration will formally recognize Mr.Ahmadinejad's re-election, saying U.S.officials are going to "take this a day at a time" and carefully assess what happens.
VOA: standard.2009.06.29
At a press event with Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin, Clinton said the U.S.administration is in very active consultations with Israel over steps by the Jewish state that in her words "would demonstrate the requisite commitment" to the peace process.
VOA: standard.2010.03.16
Clinton is not visiting Pakistan on this trip to the region and administration officials say her India visit - spanning four days is intended to underscore a growing strategic relationship spawned by the two countries' landmark nuclear cooperation accord in 2005.
VOA: standard.2009.07.17
Clinton paid tribute to two aid initiatives of the Bush administration the Millennium Challenge Corporation which makes grants to countries with concrete plans for good governance and fighting corruption,and PEPFAR the anti HIV-AIDS program which has provided millions of Africans and others with anti-viral medications.
VOA: standard.2010.01.06
To underscore the priority the administration puts on the issue, Clinton made the release of the report a major event that included bipartisan Congressional leaders and activists from Albania and Costa Rica who were among nine people from around the world saluted in the report as anti-trafficking heroes.
VOA: standard.2009.06.16
And I thought I had to do something for them." In his remarks,President Obama referred to women serving in high leadership positions in his administration, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, and others.
VOA: standard.2010.03.08
Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."
VOA: standard.2009.12.05
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