Originally published on the CGS blog on November 7, 2011.
Citizens for Global Solutions CEO Don Kraus was quoted in an Inter-Press Service article written about last week’s Senate hearing on the role and future of women of the Arab Spring and how it relates to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women treaty.
When asked why the Senate hadn’t passed CEDAW yet, Kraus said,
“The U.S. is schizophrenic when it comes to treaties – it works on creating them, but then has problems ratifying them.”
He also noted that failure of the U.S. to ratify CEDAW could hurt its credibility when advocating for women’s rights in other countries and said,
“U.S. ratification would provide credibility to U.S. diplomats when they urge other nations to abide by commitments they made when they ratified CEDAW.”
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