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A Senate committee is preparing to take action on an international women's rights treaty, with some analysts concerned that the treaty obscures a controversial feminist agenda and puts President Bush in a difficult position on women's issues in a mid-term election year. The "Treaty for the Rights of Women" is scheduled for a vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday. Created in 1979 as the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the treaty has since been ratified by 170 countries around the world. While the treaty was tentatively approved in the...

Chinese women married to Taiwanese men are being ordered to have abortions or sterilization surgery during visits to the mainland to comply with China's controversial "one-child policy." At least six of those women report that family planning officials forced them to undergo pregnancy tests in recent months, according to the Taiwanese body that deals with mainland relations, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF). SEF legal services director Patricia Lin said by phone from Taipei Friday that those who were deemed to have violated the "one-child" rule - by getting pregnant after already having a child - were also fined and threatened...

BY JOHN LEOThey hate your mommy Once again the push is on for the Senate to ratify CEDAW, the United Nations women's rights treaty that has been hanging around since 1979. CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. There's a good reason that the Senate has ignored it for a generation: It's an incredibly toxic document, the work of international bureaucrats determined to impose a worldwide makeover of family relations and "gender roles." CEDAW is a blueprint for foisting the West's radical feminism on every nation gullible enough to sign. (Talk about cultural...

Once again the push is on for the Senate to ratify CEDAW, the United Nations women's rights treaty that has been hanging around since 1979. CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. There's a good reason that the Senate has ignored it for a generation: It's an incredibly toxic document, the work of international bureaucrats determined to impose a worldwide makeover of family relations and "gender roles." CEDAW is a blueprint for foisting the West's radical feminism on every nation gullible enough to sign. (Talk about cultural imperialism.) Some 167 nations have signed...

A familiar refrain of proponents of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is that US ratification of the controversial UN document would not result in significant changes in US law. Since the United States already recognizes the equal status of women, they say, US ratification is necessary solely to bolster the standing of the Convention in the rest of the world. For instance, Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE), a CEDAW supporter, said at last week's Senate CEDAW hearing that it is "highly, highly, highly unlikely" that the Convention would have any important domestic...

<p>The U.S. Senate is debating ratification of a U.N. treaty that has been pending for over two decades.</p> <p>However, a stubborn cloud hangs over the treaty, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).</p> <p>Of the many reasons to oppose CEDAW, one of them is the U.N.'s probable complicity in China's one-child policy that forces women to abort pregnancies if they already have a child. It is a shadow that darkens all U.N. programs regarding women and children.</p>

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing June 13, to address whether the United States should ratify the controversial U.N. women's rights convention, called the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE), the chairman of the committee, and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), organized the hearing in an effort to build support for the Convention, and perhaps to goad the Bush administration into approving its ratification. Biden stated that he was "concerned by the casual attitude of the Executive Branch toward the treaty process and the legitimate requests of this Committee...

Senate Committee Considers UN 'Women's Rights' Treaty By Jeff JohnsonCNSNews.com Congressional Bureau ChiefJune 13, 2002 Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - In the 22 years since its introduction by the United Nations, the "Convention on Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women," or CEDAW, has not been ratified by the U.S. Senate. Thursday, Democrats controlling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing in an attempt to bring the treaty back to the attention of the public and to call for a ratification vote by the full Senate. Supporters say the U.S. cannot speak to discrimination against women in other...

Legislative Alerts and Updates • Current Legislation • Key Votes • Capitol Hill Basics Action Alert The UN opposes Mother's Day!Tell the Senate to REJECT the UN's CEDAW! Enjoy this year's Mother's Day. According to the Family Research Council (frc.org), if the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has its way, the annual celebration will be our last. Not only does the committee overseeing implementation of CEDAW argue to legalize prostitution, it also discourages motherhood in an attempt to level every kind of distinction between men and women at every level...

Senate Left Pushes Intrusive U.N. Treaty Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comThursday, June 6, 2002 NEWSMAX.COM - WASHINGTON A United Nations treaty seeks to impose world government-style authority over the personal affairs of all Americans. The so-called Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is scheduled for a hearing next week, to be conducted by far-left Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. This is yet another U.N. treaty that would meddle in personal matters that are none of its business. Originally signed by Jimmy Carter in 1979, it was never ratified by the Senate, although the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, just a few...

Distributed nationally on the Knight-Ridder Tribune wire U.N. Treaty Targets MotherhoodBy Patrick F. Fagan and Brett D. Schaefer Who could object to motherhood? Or to Mother's Day, when we honor the sacrifices made by all mothers? The United Nations, that's who. Using a treaty known as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United Nations for years has been urging nations worldwide to, among other things, discourage full-time motherhood and scrap observances of Mother's Day. And thanks in part to an action taken by the Bush administration, it may not be long...

Senate Hearing Set On UN Women's Discrimination Treaty By Jim BurnsSenior Staff WriterJune 04, 2002 www.CNSNews.com - (CNSNews.com) - A Senate committee hearing on a United Nations treaty to address gender discrimination is set for later this month, Capitol Hill sources tell CNSNews.com. The treaty, titled the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women," has drawn criticism from conservative groups. Sources say the hearing will be a FULL Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that will be chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on JUNE 13 at 9:30 am. A spokesman for Boxer would only say...

Mother's Day is bad, and prostitution is good. That's the conclusion of a committee created to implement an international treaty more than 20 years old that is supposedly aimed at safeguarding women's rights. But what's worse, the U.S. Senate is about to discuss approving that treaty. At issue is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), an international agreement created in 1979 to institute "a change in the traditional role of men as well as the role of women in society and in the family." But family advocates say the treaty is much more...

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Here's an email I received from Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute that I thought I should pass on: Subj: Urgent Action Alert....Today Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 15:14:35 -0500 From: "Austin Ruse -- C-FAM" ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, As you read this, some U.S. Senators (Boxer and Biden), along with some in the State Department are attempting to get the U.S. to ratify one of the most dangerous and radical UN treaties ever written. We need your immediate help to stop them. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) seeks to level every single...

Rumblings are leaking out of Washington that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden (D-DE) and the Clinton holdovers in the State Department are conspiring to resuscitate the long-moribund United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). A hearing was scheduled for May 15 and then postponed, but the State Department has placed it on a list of acceptable treaties. CEDAW is not acceptable, and George W. Bush's entire constituency is up in arms against it. It was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Bill Clinton made an attempt to get it...