Author: United States Congress Sena Relations

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781330786895

Excerpt from Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Ex, R, 96-2): Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, September 27, 1994 U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:02 a.m., in room SD-419, the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Claiborne Pell (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senators Pell and Simon. The Chairman. The Committee on Foreign Relations will come to order. As so often happens here in the Senate, I find myself scheduled to be in two places at once. The other is a conference with the House on an education bill, a very significant one. I will Chair this hearing as long as I can. I will then turn the Chair over to another committee member so that we can move ahead, which we are going to, with this Convention. This morning, we are holding a hearing on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The Carter administration took a giant step toward the promotion of equal rights for women by signing the Convention in July 1980, 14 years ago. And that was 6 months after it had been adopted by the U. N. General Assembly. Unfortunately, the Convention has been pending in the Senate ever since because neither the Reagan nor Bush administrations supported ratification. The present administration, I am pleased to say, has a different view. For many years, I have wanted to see the United States ratify this treaty. It is a very significant one. And in my view, the long overdue ratification of this Convention will make the United States commitment to eliminate discrimination against women at home and abroad absolutely clear. Moreover, by becoming a party, we will be able to participate in the work of the committee set up by the Convention to monitor and make recommendations on compliance. In a letter to me, dated September 13, Secretary Christopher, writing on behalf of our President, conveyed the administration's "strong support for prompt ratification" of the Convention. At that time, the Secretary transmitted to the committee a package of proposed conditions for United States ratification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.