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	Archive \| November 29, 1999 \| CEDAW
		CEDAW was adopted by the UN on 18th December 1979, and became an international treaty on 3rd September 1989, after the twentieth country ratified it.
		But according to the harpies who constitute the CEDAW Committee, until nations achieve a 50-50 split in everything - in occupations, in public life, and even in the domestic sphere - they are discriminating against women.
		And interestingly, CEDAW is the UN treaty which calls for the "general and complete disarmament" of the world.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1299cedaw.htm (1468 words)

	CEDAW: The Importance of U.S. Ratification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		CEDAW’s scope is wideranging, addressing discrimination in areas such as education, employment, health care, marriage and family relations, politics, finance, and law.
		CEDAW was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 18, 1979, and became effective in 1981.
		CEDAW is not punitive against countries that are not in full compliance with its principles of gender equality.
	www.crlp.org /pub_fac_cedaw.html (985 words)

	CEDAW - ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
		CEDAW prohibits both intentionally discriminatory laws and laws that, while on surface do not discriminate, have the effect or impact of discriminating based on sex.
		CEDAW ratification would reflect the country's commitment to maintaining temporary special measures that advance the equal participation of women in civil, political, economic, social and cultural arenas until that goal is achieved.
		CEDAW would further strengthen the applicability of the Foreign Service Act in its facilitation and encouragement of equal opportunity and fair and equitable treatment without regard to sex.
	www.abanet.org /irr/cedaw/civilnpol.html (892 words)

	WFF Statement on CEDAW
		The provisions of CEDAW seek to overcome injustices towards women by mandating sweeping social changes which embody the narrow ideological opinions and social analysis of militant feminism on a spectrum of issues concerning fundamental rights of women and of all human beings, social institutions, nations, cultures and, indeed, human nature and human history.
		CEDAW undermines the dignity of women by devaluing their irreplaceable role within the family and in society as mothers and in other distinctively feminine roles in caring for others.
		CEDAW's overwhelming "concern with the dimension of human reproduction" and "gender relations" is reductionist in its exclusive emphasis on the sexual "rights" of women (broadly termed "reproductive rights") which supersede the rights of other human beings (e.g., men, unborn children).
	www.wf-f.org /CEDAW.html (2191 words)

	CEDAW Main - Global Population and Environment - Sierra Club
		CEDAW, or the Women's Rights Treaty, is often referred to as the international "Bill of Rights" for women.
		U.S. Ratification of CEDAW would not only show support for the rights and equality of women, but also affirm the message that the United States is a leader in promoting human rights for all citizens around the world.
		Tell your Senator that U.S ratification of CEDAW would not only show support for the rights and equality of women, but also affirm the message that the United States is a leader in promoting human rights for all citizens around the world.
	www.sierraclub.org /population/cedaw (551 words)

	Analysis of CEDAW
		CEDAW has never reached the full Senate floor for a vote, in large part because the Committee votes have been close to the end of the Congressional session or immediately before the Summer recess.
		American women especially were drawn to the plight of Afghani women denied the most fundamental human rights to education and health care, sentenced to death for adultery, penalized for walking outside without male relatives as companions and forced to wear the suffocating burqa at all times.
		The agenda-setter, the Foreign Relations Committee chairperson, was not solely responsible for the reestablishment of CEDAW as a priority in 2002, as seen by the actions of numerous supporting organizations.
	www.duke.edu /web/pps114/policy2003/1k/analysis.html (1031 words)

	Concerned Women for America - Exposing CEDAW
		CEDAW is actually a global Equal Rights Amendment, a tool for radical feminists, who deny any distinctions between men and women.
		Nonetheless, the CEDAW Committee expressed concern that in Germany "in 1997, although women accounted for 42.1 percent of the gainfully employed population, they comprised 88 percent of the persons working in part-time employment and 55.9 percent of the unemployed.
		Ratification of CEDAW could easily be used to broaden the scope of abortion in the United States and around the world.
	www.cwfa.org /articledisplay.asp?id=1971&department=CWA&categoryid=nation (3701 words)

	CEDAW - Fear v. Fact
		FEAR: CEDAW can be used to destroy the traditional family structure in the U.S. by redefining "family" and the respective roles of men and women.
		CEDAW simply urges State Parties "to adopt education and public information programmes, which will eliminate prejudices and current practices that hinder the full operation of the principle of the social equality of women." How best to implement this obligation would be considered by the U.S. authorities consistent with the protections of the U.S. constitution.
		FACT: Actually, CEDAW does not address the matter of abortion and, according to the U.S. State Department is "abortion neutral." Many countries in which abortion is illegal--such as Ireland, Burkina Faso and Rwanda--have ratified CEDAW.
	www.abanet.org /irr/fear_fact.html (868 words)

	Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - Weakening the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The CEDAW Committee noted in 1994 on the basis of its examination of initial and periodic reports, that "in some States parties to the Convention that had ratified or acceded without reservation, certain laws, especially those dealing with family, do not actually conform to the provisions of the Convention.
		The CEDAW Committee has stressed repeatedly that states should take into consideration the overall effect of a group of reservations, as well as the effect of each reservation on the integrity of the treaty, to determine if a reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention.
		Hence the CEDAW Committee urged states to comply with the provision of Article 2 to ensure that, in both public and family life, women are free of the gender-based violence that so seriously impedes their rights and freedoms.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGIOR510092004 (15153 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Women's Human Rights: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The CEDAW Committee monitors progress for women made in countries that are states parties to CEDAW.
		The CEDAW Committee reviews periodic reports of CEDAW states parties on national implementation of CEDAW obligations, and issues general recommendations, which elaborate the CEDAW Committee's view of the treaty's obligations.
		CEDAW has been in limbo in the U.S. Senate since President Carter signed it and sent it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a vote in 1980.
	hrw.org /campaigns/cedaw (915 words)

	Algeria: Briefing to the committee on the elimination of discrimination against women - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Under CEDAW, as well as general international law, states may be responsible for private acts if they fail to act with due diligence to prevent, investigate and punish acts of violence against women, and to ensure redress.(31) Such violence in Algeria is seldom investigated, and perpetrators are seldom prosecuted, let alone punished.
		Among the reservations made by the Algerian government upon ratification of CEDAW is a reservation to Article 9 (2) of the Convention, which provides that states must grant equal rights to men and women with respect to the nationality of their children.
		Algeria’s report to the CEDAW Committee confirms that virtually no cases of violence in the family are brought to court in Algeria.(83) According to Algerian women’s activists the threat of the economic and social consequences of a divorce prevents most victims of violence in the family from taking legal action.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engmde280112004 (16370 words)

	CEDAW: The Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination Against Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The U.S. signed CEDAW in 1980, but then it went to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, waiting to be ratified.
		Article 12 of CEDAW mandates "steps to eliminate sex discrimination in the field of health care, including access to services such as family planning".
		CEDAW is intended to end inequality between men and women in many aspects of life.
	www.homestead.com /womensstudies/CEDAW.html (1014 words)

	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.
		Efforts are made to ensure balanced geographical representation and the inclusion of the world's different forms of civilization and legal systems.
		The CEDAW has been controversial for statements seen by some as promoting radical feminism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CEDAW (432 words)

	OpinionJournal - Scene & Heard
		Cedaw first came into being some 23 years ago, and President Carter hastened to sign it in 1980, but for very good reasons no U.S. Senate had ever been willing to ratify it.
		Cedaw would instead force a controversial set of values and causes--enforced day care, abortion, the notion that there are no differences between the sexes--on women everywhere.
		Cedaw advocates have become so desperate to get it signed that they have taken to reassuring people that it won't really do much.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/kstrassel/?id=110002066 (1152 words)

	What About CEDAW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Convention or CEDAW, as it's known, is an international Bill of Rights for women.
		CEDAW obligates those countries which have ratified or acceded to it to take "all appropriate measures" to ensure the full development and advancement of women in all spheres -- political, educational, employment, health care, economic, social, legal, and marriage and family relations.
		CEDAW was passed by the U.N. General Assembly in 1981, and as of September 1995, 144 countries have ratified it.
	www.now.org /nnt/11-95/cedaw.html (294 words)

	ei: UN’s Committee on Women criticizes Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The CEDAW furthermore "lamented conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where Palestinian women - for security concerns - were treated like second-class citizens, often losing their houses and living without water or electricity".
		The CEDAW also drew attention to unequal treatment of Israelis and Palestinians in accessing health care (drawing particular attention to pregnant women who were stopped at checkpoints on their way to hospitals).
		In its earlier responses to the CEDAW's questions, the Israeli government had provided a totally different response that: "a normal peacetime human rights regime, of which the CEDAW is clearly a central component, cannot be considered applicable with regard to the territories" (emphasis added).
	electronicintifada.net /v2/article4108.shtml (1431 words)

	San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women: CEDAW
		CEDAW specifically mandates ending discrimination against women and girls in political and public life, status of nationality, education, employment, health care, financial endeavors, sports, cultural life, marriage and family relations.
		Overview of CEDAW Implementation in San Francisco: Progress Report #6 (December, 2001) -- This report summarizes the citywide findings and department recommendations of the six completed City and County of San Francisco department gender analyses, including the Adult Probation Department, Department of Public Works, Juvenile Probation, Department, Arts Commission, Rent Board, Department on the Environment.
		To anyone who is working on CEDAW, particularly on the local level, please let us know what you are doing, if the material here is useful, if you have adapted it to your own situation.
	www.ci.sf.ca.us /site/cosw_index.asp?id=10848 (639 words)

	Senate Foreign Relations Committee Votes for CEDAW Ratification
		The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in favor of ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on Tuesday morning.
		This is the first time in 22 years that the treaty has made it out of committee in time for a vote by the full Senate.
		CEDAW requires all nations that are signatory to the treaty to condemn discrimination against women in all its forms and to institute legal frameworks (laws, policies and practices) that protect against discrimination.
	www.now.org /issues/global/073002cedaw.html?printable (243 words)

	CEDAW Doesn't Like Mothers . . . Do Senators?
		"CEDAW is not about equality for women; it is about craven kowtowing to the radical feminists and their extremist agenda.
		Even though the U.S. rejected the Equal Rights Amendment twenty years ago, the feminists are engaging in international mischief while still trying to force us to cave in to their demands.
		"CEDAW is a blatant affront to the dignity of American women and mothers.
	www.eagleforum.org /alert/2002/cedaw-news-7-25-02.shtml (516 words)

	CEDAW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		CEDAW may hinge on who cares the most, and who is able to communicate this concern most emphatically to US Senators.
		CEDAW was written in the 1970s, and it embraces what is called a "social construct" theory of gender, which holds that all distinctions between the sexes have been created by men to keep women down.
		If CEDAW becomes US law, US delegates will have to go before this committee, and seek its approval, even though the committee includes representatives from some of the most repressive regimes in the world, such as China, where it is still against the law for women to have more than one child.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/cafs/020904-1.htm (610 words)

	News - The Problem With CEDAW - Center for Reclaiming America
		"CEDAW is a dangerous treaty that threatens American sovereignty, the rights of parents, and the safety of unborn children," said Dr. D.
		Should the U.S. Senate ratify CEDAW, local, state, and federal law would then be closely monitored by members of the CEDAW Committee.
		In June 2000, the CEDAW Committee wrote, "despite the decrease in marriages and a growing incidence of cohabitation, the rights of women in cohabitation outside of marriage are not protected by the legal system."
	www.reclaimamerica.org /PAGES/NEWS/news.aspx?story=1029 (558 words)

	U.S. Senate Committee Backs Women's Treaty (Human Rights Watch, 30-7-2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		CEDAW is the most authoritative international human rights treaty to protect women from discrimination.
		For example, countries that ratify CEDAW must take steps to ensure equality in marriage, including equal rights to choose marriage freely, and end discrimination in education, including professional and vocational training.
		After a thirteen-to-five favorable vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1994, the full Senate failed to vote on CEDAW before the end of the congressional session.
	www.hrw.org /press/2002/07/cedawvote.htm (323 words)

	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
		The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women.
		Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.
		13 October 2004: UN marks the 25th anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW
	www.un.org /womenwatch/daw/cedaw (461 words)

	Feminists Take CEDAW Into Our Own Hands
		"CEDAW is not a cure for discrimination against women, but it will be a promising start if the administration removes the weakening restrictions," says NOW Executive Vice President Kim Gandy.
		CEDAW calls for many things, but it does not mention lesbian rights or reproductive rights.
		In the U.S., 12 states, 11 counties and 20 cities have endorsed CEDAW or adopted it on behalf of their jurisdictions.
	www.now.org /nnt/winter-2000/cedaw.html (507 words)

	Getting CEDAW Ratified in the United States: Steps To Take (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Unfortunately CEDAW has still not been adopted by the U.S. in 2002, so it is still relevant.
		In no way does CEDAW guarantee that any nation which ratifies it will actually follow all of its guidelines, but it does give many provisions which could potentially improve your life and that of ever woman you know.
		To learn more about CEDAW and tips to urge U.S. ratification, contact either of these co-chairs of the Working Group for the Ratification of CEDAW in the U.S. They would also like to be informed of any efforts you make to encourage ratification.
	www.homestead.com /womensstudies/CEDAW2.html (916 words)

	CEDAW - Women's human rights, international human rights, discrimination against woman - IWRAW Asia Pacific
		The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (the CEDAW Convention) is a human rights treaty for women.
		CEDAW is one of the most highly ratified international human rights conventions, having the support of 183 States parties.
		This is one of the many benefits of the CEDAW Convention; it can stand as a treaty that has achieved a global consensus and thus reflects the normative standards applicable to women's human rights.
	www.iwraw-ap.org /convention.htm (203 words)

	Washington Office for Advocacy: Ratify CEDAW Now!
		CEDAW is a response to pervasive and longstanding discrimination against women around the world.
		CEDAW provides an important tool for addressing those nations who are not parties to the Convention.
		CEDAW reflects these deeply held American values and is consistent with domestic American laws and policies.
	www.uua.org /uuawo/new/article.php?id=101 (372 words)

	CEDAW \| Legislative Advocacy \| American Bar Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This international convention, or treaty, approved by the UN in 1979, is the first international treaty to address comprehensively women's rights within political, cultural, economic, social, and family life.
		One speaker discussed specifically successful efforts in San Francisco last year to have the city adopt CEDAW principles and apply them to city policies and operations as a means of advancing women's human rights locally.
		Articles 23-30: set forth elements of the operation of the treaty, including the manner by which the treaty comes into operation, the limits on the scope of permissible reservations, and the way in which disputes between States Parties can be settled.
	www.abanet.org /legadv/cedawmain.html (1409 words)

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