January 18, 2007

U.N .Treaty Against Discrimination of Women

Vic Eliason began this edition of Crosstalk with a note on Senate Bill S.1.

Senate Bill S.1 includes a section (Section 220) that restricts the rallying of grassroots supporters.

Vic then continued the program by visiting with Wendy Wright, the president of Concerned Women for America.

The main topic discussed was the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women treaty (CEDAW), and whether it will be ratified under a democratic controlled senate.

CEDAW was formulated in the 1970's and has been in the U.S. Senate since that time. It would take a two-thirds majority vote to pass it.

The treaty tells countries that they can't recognize any differences between men and women. In addition, countries must modify their social and cultural patterns of conduct. For example, if a textbook presents a woman as a mother, that distinction would be considered discriminatory and would need to be removed.

More Information

Concerned Women for America:
http://www.cwfa.org
800-458-8797

Action Points

To contact your senators about your position on the U.N .Treaty Against Discrimination of Women, which would require the United States to modify its laws and customs so there would be no distinctions whatsoever between men and women:
202-224-3121
202-225-3121