Treaty Doc. 96-53; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 18, 1979, and Signed on Behalf of the United States of America on July 17, 1980: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 13, 2002U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002 - 146 páginas |
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... rights . Our voice on women's rights will be enhanced by becoming a party to this treaty , because we will be empowered to call nations to account for their compliance with the treaty . Absent our membership , we can- not do that ...
... rights . Our voice on women's rights will be enhanced by becoming a party to this treaty , because we will be empowered to call nations to account for their compliance with the treaty . Absent our membership , we can- not do that ...
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... Women were forced to be made invisible , and clearly from Senator Biden's eye witness reports they still are . Their daughters are forced to go without an education , or without basic health care . Right now , Afghanistan is in the ...
... Women were forced to be made invisible , and clearly from Senator Biden's eye witness reports they still are . Their daughters are forced to go without an education , or without basic health care . Right now , Afghanistan is in the ...
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... women and girls , Afghanistan needs an international framework to look to in drafting the new laws of their nation ... rights because we have not ratified it — it is very important to the women of Afghanistan that we do so . The treaty ...
... women and girls , Afghanistan needs an international framework to look to in drafting the new laws of their nation ... rights because we have not ratified it — it is very important to the women of Afghanistan that we do so . The treaty ...
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... Rights of Women . As the world knows , Afghan women were subjected to outrageous abuses under the previous Taliban government as well as oppression and violence throughout the last 23 years . For the first time in many years , there is ...
... Rights of Women . As the world knows , Afghan women were subjected to outrageous abuses under the previous Taliban government as well as oppression and violence throughout the last 23 years . For the first time in many years , there is ...
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... women . CEDAW is not about creating new rights , but about ensuring that women are able to exercise the same human rights as men . CEDAW establishes a universal definition of discrimination against women , and provides international ...
... women . CEDAW is not about creating new rights , but about ensuring that women are able to exercise the same human rights as men . CEDAW establishes a universal definition of discrimination against women , and provides international ...
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Página 71 - Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenants on Human Rights, proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status...
Página 102 - Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the field of health care in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, access to health care services, including those related to family planning.
Página 128 - The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Página 79 - However, the terms of nine of the members elected at the first election shall expire at the end of two years; immediately after the first election, the names of these...
Página 123 - racial discrimination' as: 'any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.
Página 79 - ... 3. The members of the Committee shall be elected by secret ballot from a list of persons nominated by States Parties. Each State Party may nominate one person from among its own nationals.
Página 100 - To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances...
Página 86 - WHEREAS the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women...
Página 130 - The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home . 3.
Página 53 - To modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women...