By John-Henry Westen
NEW YORK, March 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is notorious for pushing abortion on nations which have ratified the CEDAW convention. The committee has pursued a radical feminist agenda belittling motherhood and undermining the traditional family.
The United States has not yet ratified this treaty but is being pressured to do so by abortion activists.
At United Nations headquarters in New York this week, CEDAW leaders let slip that they view their statements to nations on compliance with CEDAW as superseding national laws.
Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D., a Senior Fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, the think tank for Concerned Women for America, is reporting on these goings on from the United Nations. Crowse, who was appointed by the President to the U.S. delegation to the 2003 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, says that Dubravka Simonovic, the Chair of the Committee “speaking extemporaneously, inadvertently exposed the CEDAW treaty’s iron hand.”
According to Crouse, Simonovic explained that all countries have national laws, but “international treaties are directly applicable as well.” The CEDAW chair clarified that treaties are not merely applicable through national laws, but also through international laws, “though some countries don’t recognize this.” If “countries don’t take this seriously and respect their obligations” there must be means to hold them accountable.
“In other words,” explains Crouse, “she indicated that international treaties, like CEDAW, can be brought in to take precedence over national laws that are ineffective in gaining gender equity.”
For more see Crouse’s full report on Wednesday’s CEDAW meeting:
https://www.cwfa.org/articles/12431/BLI/reports/index.htm