CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women
A Senate subcommittee will hold a hearing today on a U.N. treaty that pro-family groups claim is a very dangerous.
The hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on human rights and law concerns the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which is an international "bill of rights" for women. Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America (CWA), tells OneNewsNow that though it appears the treaty is meant to promote women's rights, the "anti-constitutional," "anti-woman" contract was actually crafted in the 1970s by what she calls "extreme feminists."
"This treaty would require countries to deny the obvious -- that men and women are different -- and it covers every aspect of life: government, schools, business [and] even family life [comes] under authority of this treaty," she explains.
The Convention prides itself as the only human rights agreement that affirms the reproductive rights of women and "targets culture and tradition as influential forces shaping gender roles and family relations." But Wright thinks some senators apparently missed the message voters sent them in the midterm elections.
"It just screams that these senators are more interested in appeasing the liberal, radical elitists who think that the United States is immoral and needs to come under the patriarchal views of the radicals at the United Nations," she laments.
The CWA president decides this is a good example of why the public should stay informed and show its opposition to the treaty because some senators are trying to sneak this hearing through during the lame-duck session while few people are paying attention.
Contact: Bill Bumpas
Source: OneNewsNow
Publish Date: November 18, 2010
