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21 hours ago ago from IntLawGrrls
On this day in ... ... 1979 (30 years ago today) , at U.N. headquarters in New York, by a vote of 130-0-10, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women at U.N. headquarters in New York City. The next summer, in Copenhagen, Denmark, 64 states signed and 2 ratified the Convention. On September 3, 1981, it entered into force, "faster than any previous human ...
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17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
I'm a progressive attorney and a feminist. I care about the Stupak/Pitts Amendment, Lilly Ledbetter, the epidemic of rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the struggles of women in Afghanistan. So why didn't I know about CEDAW? CEDAW (pronounced see-daw) is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: an international treaty to protect women's rights. It defines "discrimination" like this: . . . ...
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Today is an important 30th anniversary for women's rights. On Dec. 18, 1979, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, or CEDAW , making it a watershed day for women around the globe. This international agreement was Eleanor Roosevelt's dream and is one of the pillars of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The world community went on the record to challenge every ...
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