Senator Joseph Biden
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations March 8, 2007
Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510 6225
Dear Senator Biden,
On March 8, International Women’s Day, we the undersigned are members of the FAWCO(Federation
of American Women’s Clubs Overseas), the oldest and largest organization representing
private sector Americans living abroad urge you endorse full ratification of the CEDAW (Convention to End
Discrimination against Women) treaty.
The treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Dec 18, 1979 and subsequently signed by the US in July of 1980 had full Senate hearings in 1988, 1990, 1994 and most recently in 2002. Since that time, the treaty has languished in committee.
It is high time that the United States joined the other 185 countries in the world that have signed this treaty designed to help guarantee women’s and girls’ rights, to improve their daily lives, to help encourage female education and to promote women’s self-sufficiency.
It is in the vital interests of the United States today to promote the rights of half of the world’s population. The United States also needs to encourage the rights of the youngest girls to raise the future generation and to lead it as well.
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