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"Our strong support for ratification of CEDAW"

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 03:20 AM PDT

Our commitment to the rule of law is also reflected in our strong support for ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and our signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities — the first new human rights convention of the 21st century.

-- Remarks by Mary McLeod, Legal Adviser, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, at a UN Security Council Debate on Justice and the Rule of Law, 29 June 2010. Full text of remarks here.

Q: What are the seven UN member states that have not ratified CEDAW?
A: Iran, Nauru, Palau, Somalia, Sudan, Tonga, United States of America.

CEDAW was included in the treaty priority list sent by the Obama administration to the Senate in May 2009, and administration statements supporting ratification continue. The opening quote in this post and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's remarks at the United Nations on 12 March 2010 (text and video here) are but a few examples.
But Senators need to hear from their constituents that ratification is a priority if CEDAW is to move forward. A list of Senators with their contact information is available here; Senate Foreign Relations Committee members are listed here.

'Nuff said

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:10 AM PDT

(Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes)

She genuinely sees her party as a vehicle for good and her pragmatism is not the least bit cynical. She is the most powerful woman in the country, the most fearless person on Capitol Hill and on track to be one of the most productive speakers in history.
-- New York Times columnist Gail Collins, extolling achievements of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Pelosi, a Baltimore-born San Francisco Democrat, became Speaker in January 2007, the 1st woman ever to hold that congressional leadership position. (credit for 2009 photo)

On June 30

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 01:04 AM PDT

On this day in ...
... 1860 (50 years ago today), a famous debate over evolution took place at the natural history museum in Oxford, England (right). Opposing ideas set forth in the just-published The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin, an Anglican bishop
ended his speech by archly asking one of Darwin's biggest supporters, Thomas Huxley, if it was his grandmother or his grandfather who was descended from an ape.

As re-enacted in this National Public Radio broadcast, biologist Huxley replied:
If I had to choose between being descended from an ape or from a man who would use his great powers of rhetoric to crush an argument, I should prefer the former.

(Prior June 30 posts are here, here, and here.)

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