Women's rights

Scope and Contents Materials related to Theresa Loar’s work for the U.S. government as Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues at the Department of State and as the Director of the President's Interagency Council on Women during the Clinton Administration. In particular, the collection documents the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995). The collection includes documents, posters, audiovisual recordings, and a photobook commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Beijing...

Scope and Contents Papers of Melanne Verveer (1944-), Chief of Staff for First Lady, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues in the Obama Administration, including schedules, briefing books, speeches, memorabilia, and trip materials, as well as files on the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) and memoranda on health care reform. A large portion of the collection includes travel books from 1993-2000 detailing the First Lady’s official travels across the...