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MAKE WOMEN EQUAL BY 2000
We recently celebrated Women's Equality
Day (August 26), the 79th anniversary
of suffrage. But women in the U.S. are
still not in the Constitution, and our
country has still not ratified the international
guarantee of women's human rights, the
Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW). We
are the only industrialized country
in the world failing to ratify the treaty.
Women working for ratification have
set International
Women's Day, March 8, 2000
as the goal for the U.S. Senate to ratify.
This means members of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee must send it to
the floor (it has been bottled up for
19 years). Contact
members of the Committee
particularly those who are up for re-election
(below) and get statements
of support or non-support
from their challengers:
Telephone Fax E-mail
John Ashcroft (R-MO) 202-224-6154 202-228-0988 E-mail
Bill Frist (R-TN) 202-224-3344 202-228-1264 E-mail
Rod Grams (R-MN) 202-224-3244 202-228-0956 E-mail
Richard Lugar (R-IN) 202-224-4814 202-228-0360 E-mail
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) 202-224-4524 202-224-1651 E-mail
Craig Thomas (R-WY) 202-224-6441 202-224-1724 E-mail
(WFF 8/27/99)
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