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Education Fund to bolster secular education around the
world.
I want to take a moment to emphasize the importance
of a “bottom-up” approach to ensuring that America
remains a positive force in the world. The president-elect
and I believe in this strongly. Investing in our common
humanity through social development is not marginal to
our foreign policy but integral to accomplishing our goals.
Today more than two billion people worldwide live on
less than $2 a day. They are facing rising food prices and
widespread hunger. Calls for expanding civil and political
rights in countries plagued by mass hunger and disease will
fall on deaf ears unless democracy actually delivers mate-
rial benefits that improve people’s lives while weeding out
the corruption that too often stands in the way of progress.
Our foreign policy must reflect our deep commitment
to the cause of making human rights a reality for millions
of oppressed people around the world. Of particular con-
cern to me is the plight of women and girls, who comprise
the majority of the world’s unhealthy, unschooled, unfed,
and unpaid. If half of the world’s population remains vul-
nerable to economic, political, legal, and social marginal-
ization, our hope of advancing democracy and prosperity
will remain in serious jeopardy. We still have a long way to
go, and the United States must remain an unambiguous
and unequivocal voice in support of women’s rights in
every country, every region, on every continent.

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