Hearing This Thursday! For the first time in 8 years, the Senate will hold a hearing on CEDAW this Thursday, November 18th, at 2 pm in 226 Dirksen Senate building. The hearing will take place in the ...
The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW in short, was adopted in 1979, and came into force in 1981. To date, a total of 189 countries ...
Grace Melton is a Senior Associate in The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women ...
While acknowledging political will and multiple government initiatives, Committee Experts said negative gender stereotypes ...
In late July, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to send a United Nations treaty on women's rights to the floor for consideration, its chairman, Joseph Biden, D-Del., said he supported ...
CEDAW is not just a wish list from which politicians in the UK can ‘pick-n-mix’ when drawing up their shopping lists of “things to do about women”. Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith argues that in the run up ...
San Francisco was the first city in the country to address public sector discrimination through a local ordinance inspired by the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...
In a major step forward in the protection of older women’s rights, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee has adopted a new general ...
We are writing to express our concern about Morocco's apparent delay in lifting its reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). During your ...
A basic right for Iranian women could be guaranteed within an Islamic framework of governance provided those in government were inclined to interpret the faith in the spirit of equality, says Shirin ...
Editor’s Note: Lisa Baldez is associate professor of government at Dartmouth College. Her next book, “Defying Convention: The United States, the United Nations, and the Treaty on Women’s Rights,” will ...
Prakriti Shrestha, an adolescent girl from Nepal, spoke at CEDAW Committee in Geneva today on some of the issues faced by young women and girls in the country. She said despite legal progress in the ...
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