International Women's Rights - Global Women's Rights
Around the world in nations big and small, the struggle to ensure women's rights is played out again and again with varying success. From the United Nation's international women's rights treaty to individual efforts taking place at the grassroots level, women are committed to equal access to self-determination, health, education, and leadership opportunities as men enjoy.
What is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women? And what is CEDAW? A description of the United Nations' international human rights treaty also known as the Treaty for the Rights of Women.
If CEDAW - the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - is an international bill of rights for women, why won't the U.S. ratify CEDAW? A look at the reasons why, the presidents who supported it, and the groups that oppose it.
Previous attempts at ratification of CEDAW by the U.S. have led to the attachment of RUDs restricting the impact of this treaty. A 'clean' CEDAW free of RUDs would be in the best interests of women's rights in the U.S. and this international bill of rights for women.
