Help ensure the rights of women around the world by urging the U.S. Senate to ratify the Treaty for the Rights of Women.

Also known as CEDAW (the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), this treaty is the most complete international agreement on basic rights for women. Yet the U.S. is one of only 8 countries (including Sudan, Iran, and Somalia) who have not yet ratified this important treaty.

Empowering women is one of the most effective ways to end global poverty. Although microfinance is a crucial tool for fighting poverty, it is far more effective in a global environment where women's basic rights are protected and respected.

Please urge the Senate to take the simple step of ratifying CEDAW, and help empower women around the world economically, socially, legally, and politically. It has been nearly 30 years since the U.N. first adopted this treaty, and it is high time that the U.S. join the rest of the world.