Help ensure the rights of women around the world by urging the U.S. Senate to ratify the Treaty for the Rights of Women.
Also known as CEDAW (the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), this treaty is the most complete international agreement on basic rights for women. Yet the U.S. is one of only 8 countries (including Sudan, Iran, and Somalia) who have not yet ratified this important treaty.
Empowering women is one of the most effective ways to end global poverty. Although microfinance is a crucial tool for fighting poverty, it is far more effective in a global environment where women's basic rights are protected and respected.
Please urge the Senate to take the simple step of ratifying CEDAW, and help empower women around the world economically, socially, legally, and politically. It has been nearly 30 years since the U.N. first adopted this treaty, and it is high time that the U.S. join the rest of the world.
As a concerned citizen, I urge you in your role as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support U.S. ratification of the Treaty for the Rights of Women (officially the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or CEDAW). There are 185 nations who have already ratified this important treaty, leaving the U.S. as one of only eight countries (including Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, and Iran) who have yet to ratify CEDAW.
The ratification of CEDAW by the United States Senate would serve as a powerful tool in fighting the discrimination and violence women face around the world and in ending global poverty.
When women are empowered financially, legally, educationally and physically, their families, communities and societies flourish. Microfinance efforts have proven that financially empowered women invest in the nutritional, health and educational needs of their children, helping to lift their families and communities out of poverty permanently.
Please urge the Senate to take the simple step of ratifying CEDAW, and help empower women around the world economically, socially, legally, and politically. It has been nearly 30 years since the U.N. first adopted this treaty, and it is high time that the U.S. join the rest of the world.
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I urge you to ratify the Treaty for the Rights of Women without further delay.
