Equality of rights for women is a basic principle of the United Nations. The Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations sets as one of the Organization's central goals the reaffirmation of "faith ...

During the drafting of CEDAW, a complaints procedure was suggested, but this was not taken up. Some delegates argued that complaints procedures were needed for "serious international crimes" such as ...

Senior Policy Analyst, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing Grace Melton is a Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing.

I was three months old when the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on December 18, 1979. Though I was happily unaware ...

The story of Afghan women is a story of survival. We survived the Taliban era of vastly more draconian control over women. Most of us vanished into our homes, leaving our jobs and education; others ...

In late July, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to send a United Nations treaty on women's rights to the floor for consideration, its chairman, Joseph Biden, D-Del., said he supported ...

Tomorrow, November 18, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law will hold a hearing on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) — the ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Adopted by the United Nations in 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), often called the world's "Bill of ...

The last of the substantive provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, Article 16) relates to gender equality in marriage and the family. When ...

In the coming months, the Obama Administration and the Senate will have the chance to right a major wrong of the Bush era: the US government’s refusal–along with such beacons of women’s liberation as ...