To: Melissa Mark-Viverito, Speaker of the New York City Council
Call on the NYC Council to Adopt CEDAW
Call on the NYC Council to adopt the United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which was included in a 2010 City Council bill that wasn't passed and which would help immensely in protecting women's rights and defending women's equality.
Why is this important?
So many women today face discrimination on a daily basis--whether in the workplace, at home, in their personal lives, or in any other domain--that goes largely unnoticed by society but that we must work to stop. CEDAW outlines provisions key to ending discrimination against women and to protecting women's equality and fair treatment. It is a United Nations resolution that the United States has not ratified but that cities around the county, such as San Francisco, are acting on and adopting.