Sen. Durbin Urges Ratification Of International Women's Rights Convention

[The Pope]

On Thursday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) held a subcommittee hearing to urge ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, a 1979 United Nations convention that has been ratified by nearly every country except the U.S., the Lincoln Tribune reports (Colombant, Lincoln Tribune, 11/18)...

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