[CEDAW Taskforce] Update on CEDAW
Beth Dehghan
This is the update on CEDAW that I received from Washing DC.
With my best wishes for the ratification of CEDAW in US which will lead to help women globally
Happy Holidays
Beth Dehghan
Executive Director
WomenNC, NC committee for CEDAW/CSW
www.womennc.org
919-744-4778
June Zeitlin wrote:
Dear Friends,
As the year ends, I wanted to thank you for your continued support and to update you on some of our recent activities.
Following the November hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Women and the Arab Spring, we have been looking for opportunities in the media to continue to link the importance of US ratification of CEDAW to critical foreign policy issues in the Middle East, Afghanistan and elsewhere. See Zeitlin letter to NY Times, Tarr-Whelan Op-Ed and Tarr-Whelan UN Association article.
This week President Obama and Secretary Clinton released the first ever National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security and an Executive Order directing agencies to implement the plan. The Leadership Conference issued a statement applauding the Plan and noted the President’s support for ratification of CEDAW.
We encourage you to look for opportunities for letters to the editor and op-eds in your local media. Feel free to call on me or Kathy Bonk at the Communications Consortium for assistance. (kb...@ccmc.org)
Best wishes for the holidays.
June Zeitlin
Director, CEDAW Education Project
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
The Leadership Conference Education Fund
1629 K Street, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-263-2852 - Phone
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