News on the Ratification of CEDAW
Archived News:
Secretary Hilary Clinton advocates for women's rights treaty. Read about it in The Daily Beast.
Brian Whitaker writes that "Tunisia Leading the Way in the Region" and the steps toward full gender equality in its new political climate in Gulfnews. Read more
Julissa Delgado, research fellow for COHA (the Council on Hemispheric Affairs), discusses using CEDAW and the pending International Violence against Women Act (IVAWA) to reduce violence against women in Chihuahua, Mexico in “Protecting Mexico’s Lost Women” in the May 10, 2011 issue of Eurasia Review. Read more.
Edison Baird, the Minister of Social Development in Anguilla stated at a May 6, 2011 public hearing that a new Domestic Violence Bill was an important step toward protecting women and children as reported by The Anguillian newspaper. Baird stated "by ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and complying with the provisions of the Beijing Platform, Anguilla committed itself to the eradication of violence against women.” Read more.
Dr. Rakhshinda Perve, author of A Tax Break for Economic Freedom, discusses Pakistan’s new tax-break legislation in a column in the May 4, 2011 issue of Pakistan’s Daily Times as “pro-woman” legislation that follows one of the principles of equality cited in CEDAW, the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Read more.
Kristina Brittenham discusses CEDAW and human trafficking in America in her blog post “The Traffic’s Bad in L.A.” in a May 2, 2011 article in The Huffington Post. Read the entire Blog.
Selene Kaye, who was only three months old when the United Nations ratified the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, speaks out about the importance of ratifying CEDAW in "Ratify CEDAW: For Our Daughters." Read her blog here.
Chez Marta presents a global perspective on the importance of CEDAW as a tool of empowerment for rural women in "Rural Feminist Grassroots Organizations and CEDAW" during a symposium Applying Feminism Globally sponsored by the University of Baltimore School of Law's Center on Applied Feminism. Read her blog post here.
According to the Philippine Information Agency, more than 4,000 women attended the Women's Day celebration "Magna Carta of Women: The Philippine CEDAW in Support of the Millennium Goals" on March 26, 2011 in Tangub City, Philippines.
Joan Winship, International Association of Women Judges, interviewed on "Putting the Force of Law Behind Women's Rights," for Inter-Press Service. "What we try to do is not only the training but then follow up by collecting case decisions where magistrates and judges are actually using the international human rights legal tools, [and] issuing decisions that will protect a woman in an inheritance case, for a property rights case, for divorce, and custody case for her children." Read the complete interview.
Margaret Owen OBE, Director of Widows for Peace, discusses the need to raise awareness about the issues surrounding widowhood in developing countries in "Widowhood: Africa's Neglected Human Rights Issue" in ThinkAfricaPress. "CEDAW (the UN Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, ratified by the majority of African Member States) should be used vigorously by lawyers to promote the status of widows and protect them from discrimination." Read the full article.
CEDAW Senate Hearing - News Coverage:
- Ellen Chesler, a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, comments about the ratification of CEDAW in a Letter to the Editor in the New York Times. Read op-ed here.
- The Washington Post: The Reliable Source: Celebvocate: Geena Davis in D.C. to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- World Politics Review: Senate Revisits the ‘Women’s Treaty’
- St. Louis Beacon (MO): Durbin Pushes for Vote on Gender Discrimination
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO): Durbin, Geena Davis Press for International Women’s Treaty
- Women’s eNews: Senate Talks CEDAW; Paycheck Fairness Falls
- Women’s eNews: Lame-Duck Congress Has Women’s Work to Do
- Ms. Magazine: CEDAW Hearing Standing Room Only- Sandra Day O’Connor for CEDAW
- The Lincoln Tribune (NC): US Senators Make New Effort to Ratify Women’s Treaty
- The Hill: Geena Davis on Capitol Hill Thursday
- The Iowa Independent: Three Decades Later, Women’s Equality Treaty Still Controversial
- Joann Kamuf, " From Rhetoric to Reality: The Time has Come for the Obama Administration to Take Concrete Steps to Adopt International Human Rights Standards," in The Huffington Post.
- Jennifer Wagner, "Senate Hearings o Ratification of CEDAW Women's Rights Treaty," in Technorati.
- Wazhma Frogh, member of the Afghan Women's Network, "CEDAW Ratification Would be a Triumph for Afghan Women," in The Hill.
- Linda Tarr-Whelan, "A New START for Women Around the World," in American Forum.
- Eleanor Smeal, "Help Me Call On the Senate to Ratify CEDAW," in Ms. Magazine.
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