Women's Campaign International » Barbara Boxer http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org Empowering Women to Transform Their Communities. Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:11:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Discord likely over new push for US ratification of CEDAW http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/2009/03/discord-likely-over-us-ratification-of-cedaw/ http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/2009/03/discord-likely-over-us-ratification-of-cedaw/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:33:31 +0000 WCI http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/?p=1034 With a new democratic president in office, Sen. Barbara Boxer is planning a push to have the US ratify CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.  The US is one of only eight UN member states that has not ratified the Convention, which was passed in 1979.  Some conservatives oppose ratification because they believe the document supports legalizing prostitution, increased government interference in family matters, and state-funded abortions.  Democrats are concerned that the treaty will only be ratified with reservations, understandings and declarations (RUDs) that would harm the integrity of the Convention.  WCI supports CEDAW as a key legal document supporting the rights of women around the world, and strongly encourages the Senate and President Obama to ratify the treaty.

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]]> http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/2009/03/discord-likely-over-us-ratification-of-cedaw/feed/ 0 New U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Women http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/2009/03/new-us-senate-subcommittee-on-women/ http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/2009/03/new-us-senate-subcommittee-on-women/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:50:10 +0000 WCI http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/?p=896 WCI believes that the U.S. Senate has taken a vital step in advancing women’s empowerment and democracy worldwide.  It was announced in early February that the Senate will  incorporate a new Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women’s Issues.  California Senator Barbara Boxer (D) will chair the subcommittee and guide its mandate of addressing the particular and disproportionate ways in which violence and poverty affect women and girls worldwide.  Click here for Senator Boxer’s press release: http://boxer.senate.gov/news/releases/record.cfm?id=308007

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