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Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in January of 2020. [183] [184] [185] Prior, an effort to ratify the ERA in the Virginia General Assembly in 2018 failed to reach the floor of either the House of Delegates or Senate. [186] [187] [188] In 2019, a Senate committee voted to advance the ERA to the floor.
The vote is 84 in favor and 8 opposed. A deadline is set that it must by ratified by the required 38 states within the next seven years. [3] March 22, 1972 – Hawaii ratifies the ERA. [4] March 23, 1972 – Delaware and New Hampshire ratify the ERA. [4] March 24, 1972 – Idaho and Iowa ratify the ERA. [4] March 28, 1972 – Kansas ratifies ...
Treaties concluded or ratified by Pakistan.Where appropriate, articles should be placed in the subcategories. This category may contain articles about treaties concluded or ratified by Pakistan since 23 March 1956, which is the date Pakistan adopted a constitution whereby it became the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan".
The Equal Rights Amendment, which ensures women have equal protections under the law, should become the 28th Amendment of the Constitution this week. A Trump-Era Memo Is Blocking The Equal Rights ...
The instrument of ratification, accession, or succession is deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. As of May 2015, 189 states have ratified or acceded to the treaty, most recently South Sudan on April 30, 2015. [ 1 ]
8 August: Pakistan Soviet air confrontations, Colonel Alexander Rutskoy's Sukhoi Su-25 was shot down by PAF. 14 August: Pakistan signs the Geneva Accords (1988) with Afghanistan under the mediation of United States and Soviet union respectively. 17 August: General Zia-ul-Haq is killed in a plane crash near Bahawalpur. 30 September: 1988 ...
The 1973 constitution was the first in Pakistan to be framed by elected representatives. Unlike the 1962 constitution it gave Pakistan a parliamentary democracy with executive power concentrated in the office of the prime minister, and the formal head of state—the president—limited to acting on the advice of the prime minister. [14]
Pakistan became independent of the United Kingdom in 1947, but remained a British Dominion, like Canada and Australia, until 1956.Under Section 8 of the Indian Independence Act, 1947, the Government of India Act 1935 - with certain adaptations - served as the working constitution of Pakistan; still, the need of a full independence and a constitution to be framed by the elected representatives ...