One of the most important activities of the Nashville Cordell Hull Chapter, the national United Nations Association-USA and the UN Foundation is advocacy.
Members are encouraged to stay informed of issues that affect the relationship between the UN and the United States. Members are also encouraged to take action. Contact your friends and the media to raise awareness. Contact your to gain support for action that enhances international cooperation, human rights and peaceful resolution of conflict.
The UNA-USA Advocacy Agency in 2011 seeks to strengthen US government policy on four issues, including: (1) securing UN funding; (2) upholding the UN’s role in advancing human rights; (3) promoting ratification of key international treaties; and (4) supporting the Millennium Development Goals.
Among other key international treaties that the United States has not yet ratified are the following:
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention on the Law of the Sea
- The Convention on the Prohibition, Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Mine Ban Treaty)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- International Criminal Court (ICC)
- Kyoto Protocol (of the Framework Convention on Climate Change)
Take Action Now on CEDAW
A major nation-wide effort is now underway to ask our Senators to support ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
Only a handful of countries in the world have not ratified this Convention: Iran, Nauru, Palau, Somalia, Sudan, Tonga and the United States. Every other country in the world has ratified it.
On Thursday, November 18, 2010 for the first time in eight years, the United States Senate held a hearing focused solely on the importance of ratifying CEDAW.
This hearing underscores the importance of the U.S. ratifying CEDAW and remaining a world leader on human rights issues and is an important first step towards holding a vote on CEDAW.
Tennessee’s Senator Bob Corker is a member of the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. His role is pivotal.
Write, call and/or email Senator Corker. Tell him that we want to join the family of nations that support the elimination of discrimination against women!
You can also sign the petition to show your support for CEDAW ratification.
PLEASE DON’T WAIT. DO IT TODAY!