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“Time Is A-Wasting”: Making The Case For Cedaw Ratification By The United States, Rangita De Silva De Alwis, Melanne Verveer
“Time Is A-Wasting”: Making The Case For Cedaw Ratification By The United States, Rangita De Silva De Alwis, Melanne Verveer
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Since President Carter signed the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (the “CEDAW” or the “Convention”) on July 17, 1980, the United States has failed to ratify the Convention time and again. As one of only a handful of countries that has not ratified the CEDAW, the United States is in the same company as Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Tonga, and Palau. When CEDAW ratification stalled yet again in 2002, then-Senator Joseph Biden lamented that “[t]ime is a-wasting.”
Writing in 2002, Harold Koh, former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, bemoaned America’s …
Interview With Lita Indzel Cohen, Simi B. Kaplan, Lita Indzel Cohen, Legal Oral History Porject, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Interview With Lita Indzel Cohen, Simi B. Kaplan, Lita Indzel Cohen, Legal Oral History Porject, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Lita Indzel Cohen (L '65) represented the 148th district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1991 until 2003. Before that she was the first woman to theto the Lower Merion Township Planning Commission and served for eight years on the Lower Merion Township Commission..
Lying To Protect Privacy, Anita L. Allen
Lying To Protect Privacy, Anita L. Allen
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