News stories by Melanne Verveer

  1. “Time Is A-Wasting”: Making the Case for CEDAW Ratification by the United States

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Sep 07 (IPS) - The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that has yet to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), rendering it “strange bedfellows” with Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Tonga, and Palau.

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