 President Clinton appointed Ferraro as a member of the United States delegation to United Nations Commission on Human Rights in January 1993 . She attended the June 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna as the alternate U.S. delegate . Then in October 1993 , Clinton promoted her to be United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights , saying that Ferraro had been " a highly effective voice for the human rights of women around the world . " The Clinton administration named Ferraro vice @-@ chair of the U.S. delegation to the landmark September 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing ; in this role she picked a strong team of experts in human rights issues to serve with her . During her stint on the commission , it for the first time condemned anti @-@ Semitism as a human rights violation , and also for the first time prevented China from blocking a motion criticizing its human rights record . Regarding a previous China motion that had failed , Ferraro had told the commission , " Let us do what we were sent here to do — decide important questions of human rights on their merits , not avoid them . " Ferraro held the U.N. position into 1996 . 
