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Join us in ensuring 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 U.N. 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 eight countries (including Sudan, Iran and Somalia) that have not yet ratified this important treaty.
Please join us in urging the Senate to take this simple but significant step to help empower women around the world economically, socially, legally and politically.
Just fill out the fields below to send your letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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 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.
It has been nearly 30 years since the U.N. first adopted CEDAW and it is high time that the U.S. join the rest of the world in taking this simple but significant step to support the rights of women and help end poverty around the world.
I urge you to ratify the Treaty for the Rights of Women without further delay.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
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