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| Date: From: Subject: | 7/30/2002 3:44:58 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Update--Senate Foreign Relations Committee Passes CEDAW |
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed this morning, July 30, 2002, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This vote in favor of the treaty was not unexpected. We are pleased that some of the Senators which were "on the fence", came our way in the final hours. We are confident that your calls helped make the difference. The Senate now goes out of session until September. We will be in touch as we work on strategy to see to it that CEDAW is not ratified by the full Senate. Chairman Joseph Biden (D-DE) has indicated his intention of seeing the treaty ratified this fall. The following Senators voted in favor of the treaty at the Committee level: Biden (DE), Sarbanes (MD), Dodd (CT), Kerry (MA), Feingold (WI), Wellstone (MN), Boxer (CA), Torricelli (NJ), Nelson (FL), Rockefeller (WV), Smith (OR), Chafee (RI). The following voted to oppose the treaty in the Foreign Relations Committee: Helms (NC), Lugar (IN), Hagel (NE), Frist (TN), Allen (VA), Brownback (KS), Enzi (WY). Below is the press release we sent out earlier today. Thank you for standing with us for freedom. Sincerely, Thomas Washburne Director, National Center for Home Education Home School Legal Defense Association ============= HSLDA TO CONTINUE FIGHT IN SENATE AGAINST UN CEDAW TREATY Date: July 30, 2002 Contact: Robert Ziegler 540 338 8663 robert@hslda.org Home School Legal Defense Association today pledged its continued opposition to CEDAW after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed the treaty by a 12-7 vote. The treaty now goes to the full Senate where it is expected to be debated in the Fall. " We will do everything in our power to stop ratification of this treaty by the full Senate," said Tom Washburne, director of HSLDA's National Center for Home Education. "It violates our national sovereignty and will put the United Nations in the heart of family decisions and give it oversight over all forms of education" CEDAW stands for the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women. CEDAW is a broadly worded treaty open to numerous interpretations. The treaty addresses everything from education to the size of families. It is interpreted by a panel of 23 "experts" at the United Nations. These experts have recommended the decriminalization of prostitution in China; expressed concern that Belarus celebrates Mother's Day; lectured Armenia on the need to "combat the traditional stereotype of women in the noble role of mother"; stated that too many Slovenian mothers were staying home to raise their children; and, urged the nation of Andorra to order a review of textbooks used by the Catholic schools concerning sex education. "Over two hundred years ago, the founder's of this nation fought a war so that Americans could decide our own affairs," Washburne said. "Since that time, every generation of Americans have fought to preserve this freedom. Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took the first step in handing over our freedoms to the United Nations. If the Senate does not believe it has the expertise to administer foreign policy, the remedy is not for these Senators to transfer this authority to the United Nations, but to find a new job. America already prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. CEDAW is simply the radical feminists' attempt to achieve through the United Nations what they have been unable to achieve through America's legislatures and courts" The following groups have expressed their opposition to the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. American Association of Christian Schools American Family Association American Policy Center American Renewal American Values Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute Christian Coalition Concerned Women of America Eagle Forum Family Research Council Focus on the Family Home School Legal Defense Association National Center for Home Education National Institute of Womanhood National Right to Life Committee People Advancing Christian Education Religious Freedom Coalition Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission Traditional Values Coalition Traditions, Family, Property Inc Wilberforce Forum {{JoinAd}} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. 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