Pittsburgh Reaches CEDAW Milestone

April 4, 2018

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The new executive director of the Pittsburgh Gender Equity Commission, anu jain, speaking at the March 8 press conference in the City County building, with some commission members behind her.

By Edith Bell
Coordinator, Pittsburgh Branch

Pittsburgh as a CEDAW city has reached another milestone!

The Gender Equity Commission has been formed, the Executive Director anu jain has been hired, and we are ready to go to work.

The Mayor, anu jain, and our WILPF CEDAW coordinator Marcia Bandes announced this launch at a press conference on March 8, International Women’s Day.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979, is often described as an international bill of rights for women.

A detailed article on our work to get to this point will appear in the Spring/Summer issue of Peace and Freedom.

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