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The 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. To date, it has only been ratified 186 of 193 countries worldwide. Sadly missing, like Iran, Somalia and Sudan, is the United States. The treaty protects fundamental rights, addressing violence against women, the right to vote, sex trafficking, and access to education among other important issues to women.

Gayle Crawley, Chair of the National Women?s Committee, is involved in the race to find a cure for breast cancer. Like too many in CWA, her local has been touched by this disease, which kills someone in the world every 69 seconds. The National Women?s Committee invites all of CWA to keep up to date with the latest technological advances for this important cause.

Delegates at the CWA Civil Rights and Equity Conference in New Orleans, LA last month were given a detailed briefing on some of the most critical legal cases confronting women and minorities not only in our union but across America.

CWAers had a great day on Oct 2 at the One Nation Working Together March in Washington. CWA red was the dominant color --it was everywhere.

At the Lincoln Memorial, more than 10,000 CWAers were a sea of red. We are One Nation with civil rights and community activists, teachers, environmentalists, members of faith groups and many more. We know our voices can?t be ignored and on Nov. 2, we?ll be One Nation Working Together again, and will elect leaders who will support the fight for jobs, justice and an economy that works for all.