Take Action for Women Worldwide: CEDAW Campaign

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Tuesday August 25, 2009 · 3:43 AM PDT

2009/08/25 · 03:43

Today is Women's Equality Day in the United States. August 26th is the date that commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, the Woman Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave U.S. women full voting rights in 1920.

Please take this opportunity to take action for women worldwide and call or write your senator to support the long overdue ratification of CEDAW, the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women."

The United States remains the only democracy in the world that has not ratified CEDAW.

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