Chair Person: Pam Baldwin

The Obama administration and the US Senate should step up their efforts to secure US ratification of the global women’s rights treaty. The continued failure of the Senate to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 1979, deprives women in the US of the full protection of their rights.

*Please come back soon as this is a work in progress as the committee is formed.