Lyric Thompson

Lyric Thompson is co-chair of Girls Not Brides, USA, and Director of Policy and Advocacy at the International Center for Research on Women.

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Defining the new American gender agenda

There has been much debate both within Washington and without as to what the new American gender agenda will be. Clearly, we’ll have one.......

By Lyric Thompson

/ 3 Mar 2010

A retrospective: 15 years later, Beijing’s mandate yet unfinished

Fifteen years ago in Beijing, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton made an instantly iconic cry for women’s rights: “Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights.” On that day, those words evoked a seven minute standing ovation; they have inspired more than a decade of homage to

By Lyric Thompson

/ 2 Mar 2010