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  2. Genocide Convention - Wikipedia

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    Genocide Convention; ... It is estimated that 250,000 to 500,000 women were raped in the three months ... The Civil Rights Congress drafted a 237-page petition ...

  3. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination ...

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    In 2016, the candidate nominated from the Nordic countries, Gunnar Bergby, caused controversy, after the Norwegian government had used "radical gender quotas" to nominate him over a 'more qualified' woman, CEDAW expert Anne Hellum whose candidacy had been supported by all the large women's rights NGOs and the research environments in women's ...

  4. Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

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    Article 6 calls for women to enjoy full equality in civil law, particularly around marriage and divorce, and calls for child marriages to be outlawed. Article 7 calls for the elimination of gender discrimination in criminal punishment. Article 8 calls on states to combat all forms of traffic in women and exploitation of prostitution of women.

  5. Women's rights - Wikipedia

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    Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others ...

  6. List of women's rights conventions in the United States

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    October 18–20: Fifth National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Sansom Street Hall in Philadelphia. [5] 1855. October 17–18: Sixth National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Nixon's Hall in Cincinnati. [5] 1856. November 25–26: Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention held in the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City. [5] 1858

  7. We Charge Genocide - Wikipedia

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    We Charge Genocide is a paper accusing the United States government of genocide based on the UN Genocide Convention. This paper was written by the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) and presented to the United Nations at meetings in Paris in December 1951.

  8. Black genocide in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2021, Alex Hinton, director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, says the original We Charge Genocide petition was "very compelling" but ahead of its time. He said, "While many may think that genocidal annihilation only looks like Nazi mass murder, the U.N. Genocide Convention clearly incorporates ...

  9. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women

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    To mark International Women's Day on 8 March 1993, General Secretary, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, issued a statement in preparation of the declaration explicitly outlining the UN's role in the 'promotion' and 'protection' of women's rights: [12] The struggle for women's rights, and the task of creating a new United Nations, able to promote peace and ...