Womens Rights in China - Help rural women ratify CEDAW

Women in Rural China have one of the highest suicide rates in the world - a fact often attributed to difficulties they face in a world in which they have little control over their lives.

You can support women like this around the world by supporting the CEDAW (UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN) Treaty and help women and girls fight violence and oppression, attend school and gain an education, own and inherit property, and take part in public life. We need Senate action on the CEDAW Treaty to give the U.S. greater clout to help women worldwide claim these basic rights.
For 30 years women around the world have waited for our country, the United States, to ratify the CEDAW. The United States is currently the only industrialized country in the world not to have yet ratified CEDAW.
Tell your Senators to RATIFY WOMEN & RATIFY THE CEDAW TREATY without restrictions and further delay

You can do so at easily at:
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5996/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1761

And sign the petition to President Obama at:
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5996/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1364

The urban/rural economic divide in China is very large. China also has a long history of domestic abuse of women. Many migrants, men and women, come to the cities and have no rights to protect themselves. Lihua Xie believes women's rights are human rights. She has created centers in large cities to re-educate women about their rights, that they are citizens of China, and to teach them how to succeed in modern China. She created a magazine that helps women organize, tell their stories, and learn from each other. Through micro-lending relationships, Lihua Xie hopes to empower women to take control of their own futures and de-couple themselves from stifling dependency on men. Using grass-roots, bottom-up methods, Lihua Xie's influence is spreading across China and now includes a literacy project to teach women how to read and write, something that rural women cited as one of their most important needs. In the end, Lihua Xie hopes for equality between men and women in a country where women have traditionally had little say over their lives.

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[97karenlacey]

@QuickSilverD The KEY is RURAL Women in China. People that live in villiages run by ancient tradtions ahem (Men keep the power and the decisions). These woman have yes (believe it or not) the highest sucide rate in the world.

[togethorosso]

what fucking human right there is china???

search in youtube shocking video :

sacrifice chinese girls

[QuickSilverD]

a little correction, Women in China don't have one of the highest suicide rate in the world, compare to overall rates they wouldn't even make it to the top ten, but yes, it does seems that FEMALE suicide is the highest in China and it is also the only country in the world that has a higher rate of female suicide than male suicide