The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) could fix discrimination against women gender inequality.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women defines discrimination against women and legally binds states to identify and correct gender inequality. Why won’t the U.S. ratify it?
This multilateral treaty defines discrimination against women and establishes an agenda to end it, legally binding states to comply with provisions to identify, investigate and correct gender inequality. The vast majority of the world’s nations—96 percent—have ratified CEDAW, though some with ironic modifications. Saudi Arabia, for example, makes religious exception for male guardianship laws, multiple wives, divorce by announcement and more.a signatory.
Since 2020, the committee has heard reports on trafficking and post-COVID gender-responsive recovery measures. It also pronounced Afghanistan’s Taliban in gross violation of women’s rights. It has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, noting, “The very basic principles of the Convention protecting women and girls are challenged when mothers in the Gaza Strip … bur at least 7,729 children in the past four months.
Akila Radhakrishnan, the strategic legal adviser for gender justice at the Atlantic Council, said that U.S. reluctance to join CEDAW has been based “for a lot of politicians the fear of some of the really strong substantive provisions that are contained in the treaty. … There’s always been pushback because of the fear that CEDAW’s rights protections do, in fact, go significantly further than the equality provisions currently in the U.S. Constitution, under U.S. law.
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