[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Take Action: Support the Women's Human Rights Treaty

[Margaret E. Kosal]

Imagine this - yet another international treaty which the US has *not* 
signed ... sigh ...
The link below allows one to send a message to one's US Senators.

Warm regards,
Margaret


>Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:27:30 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Amnesty USA <alerts at takeaction.amnestyusa.org>
>To: nerdgirl at s.scs.uiuc.edu
>Subject: Take Action: Support the Women's Human Rights Treaty
>
>Dear Margaret,
>
>We need your help to press for ratification of the Women's
>Convention.  The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
>Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is a treaty that was adopted by
>the United Nations on December 18, 1979. The Women's Convention
>provides an international standard for protecting and promoting
>women's human rights and is often referred to as a "Bill of Rights"
>for women. It is the only international instrument that
>comprehensively addresses women's rights within political, civil,
>cultural, economic, and social life. As of April 2002, 169 countries
>had ratified the Women's Convention. The United States remains among
>a small minority of countries that have not yet ratified CEDAW,
>including Afghanistan, Iran, and Sudan, and is the only
>industrialized democracy that has not ratified CEDAW.  Please contact
>your Senators, urging them to support and ratify this treaty and to
>assert the U.S. government's role as a leader for women's human
>rights.
>
>Please take action by visiting:
>http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=1415