Summary
Around the world, empowering women is now widely considered essential to expanding economic growth, reducing poverty, improving public health, sustaining the environment, and consolidating transitions from tyranny to democracy. Here, Chesler discusses the UN's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a global "bill of rights" that has languished in the US Senate and held up by intransigent conservatives opposing both international obligations and women's rights.
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International Holdout
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO this December, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a global "bill of rights" that is both visionary and comprehensive. In the waning days of his presidency, Jimmy Carter hurriedly signed the convention and sent it to the U.S. Senate for ratification. But it has languished there ever since, held up by intransigent conserva...
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