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NGOS BRIEF THE CEDAW COMMITTEE ON “US CITIES FOR CEDAW”

Report describes civil society leaders joining forces to promote groundbreaking global-to-local US campaign

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 12 December, 2015 – The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, (NGO CSW/NY), one of three women’s committees of CoNGO that advocates for women’s rights and gender equality, released their report presented to the CEDAW Committee on the groundbreaking “Cities for CEDAW” campaign. The document notes that the NGO CSW/NY led a delegation of nine U.S. NGO leaders to brief CEDAW experts during the committee’s last session.

This unique campaign aims to drive U.S. support of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) by encouraging cities to adopt the treaty as a city ordinance. The U.S. remains one of six countries that have not yet ratified CEDAW, alongside Iran, Somalia, Sudan and two small Pacific Island nations.