Human rights agreements can be used for social change.

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Length: 0:28:49
Uploaded: 26 Jul, 2010

Recording Date: 26 Jul, 2010
Recording Location: Detroit, Vancouver BC
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Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Program Title: WINGS #13-10 "Global Women" at US Social Forum
Description: Excerpts from the "Global Women" panel at the 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit, discussing the utility for US activists of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) [signed in 1980, never ratified - groups are now hopeful], the Beijing Platform for Action (1995), and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CEDR) [ratified during Clinton first term].

Host(s): Event host, Jan Strout. WINGS anchor, Frieda Werden.
Featured Speakers/Guests: Erica Swanson, The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights; Cindy Domingo, Co-Chair, US Women & Cuba Collaboration; Laura Roskos, Co-President, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom. Moderator: Jan Strout.

Credits: Recorded for WINGS by Lisa Rudman - Women's Desk of Making Contact - radioproject.org ; excerpted and edited for WINGS by Frieda Werden.

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