Change we can believe in

The Hillary Effect on women’s rights has spread across the globe. But will it last without her at the helm, asks Kathleen Parker

"LET IT be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.”

With those 19 words in 1995, then first lady Hillary Clinton launched a global women’s movement and institutionalised what is now known as the Hillary Effect, essentially the pebble-in-a-pond metaphor.