Toledo for CEDAW forum
Wed, May 22
|Toledo Club
Come and hear what your CEDAW steering committee has learned about the status of women and gender equity in Toledo. Your input is needed on a first draft of a City ordinance creating a gender equity commission and making Toledo a City for CEDAW
Time & Location
May 22, 2019, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Toledo Club, 235 14th St, Toledo, OH 43604, USA
About the event
More about CEDAW:
The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the only international human rights treaty to focus exclusively on the rights of women. Adopted by many countries in 1979, CEDAW has been ratified by 189 of 196 UN member states worldwide. The United States is one of the seven member states, and the only industrialized nation, that has failed to ratify CEDAW.
The purpose of the Cities for CEDAW campaign is to "make the global local" by harnessing the power of cities and promoting the adoption of CEDAW as a municipal ordinance in cities large and small in order to create a framework for improving the status of women and girls. So far, the Cities for CEDAW campaign has been successful in creating ordinances in nine major cities within the United States. Toledo for CEDAW focuses these gender equity efforts…