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New York University's Review of Law and Social Change publishes article by GJC president and founder Janet Benshoof titled "U.S. Ratification of CEDAW: An Opportunity to Radically Reframe the Right to Equality Accorded Women Under the U.S. Constitution."
Janet Benshoof writes:
Dear Friends
Given the current US Congress, the idea of the US ratifying CEDAW in order to gurantee US women CEDAW's broad equality rights, is not even remotely politically feasible.
But, that is what international law requires and why I wrote this article.
The current federal constitution definition of what constitutes sex discrimination is so in tension with the definition in CEDAW that it is possible to obscure these differences in order to ratify CEDAW as a symbolic gesture.
I hope the legal idea set forth in this article will provoke discussion about women's rights and about the need for the US to change its historic disdain towards US complaince with human rights treaties.
To read the article click here.