December 13, 2011
A UN inquiry was announced today investigating the huge number of Aboriginal women that have gone missing in Canada. According to The Native Women’s Association of Canada more than 600 women have gone missing or been murdered since 1990 and this is a direct violation of the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms ...
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September 21, 2011
With liberty and justice for… some. The United States is the only developed nation that has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This international bill of rights for women has been around since 1980 and acknowledges that gender equality does not yet exist. CEDAW’s agenda includes ...
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