CEDAW Ratification - Part 1

ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY: The Impact of CEDAW Ratification on Women's Rights in the U.S.

Monday March 8
UN Church Center, New York, NY

This UN Commission on the Status of Women parallel event was hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union and cosponsored by the Center for Womens Global Leadership, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the U.S. Human Rights Network, and Amnesty International.

This clip features Lenora Lapidus, Director of the ACLU Womens Rights Project, and Karen Richardson, State Department, Senior Advisor, Office of the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Womens Issues.

In December 2009 the world celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The U.S. is one of only seven countries that have not ratified the treaty.

Learn more: http://www.aclu.org/womens-rights/un-commission-status-women-2010

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