Pittsburgh: No Limits for Women!

Pittsburgh: No Limits for Women!

Monday, December 7th at 7 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

650 Schenely Drive, Pittsburgh, PA

Women’s rights are human rights. The Pittsburghers for CEDAW coalition is ready to kick off our campaign to make Pittsburgh a CEDAW City. CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) affirms the fundamental human rights and equality for women around the world. It seeks to end sex trafficking and violence against women, expand girls’ access to education, ensure women’s access to healthcare, fight maternal mortality, and end workplace discrimination against women.

Come to our first event, Pittsburgh: No Limits for Women, to learn what the excitement is about! It’s free. Find out how CEDAW is changing lives around the world and in U.S. cities. Though this important UN treaty has not been signed by Congress, it is changing lives in cities around the United States. How might it change women’s lives in Pittsburgh?

The keynote speaker will be June Zeitlin,Director of Human Rights Policy at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Washington, DC. Ms. Zeitlin has led the CEDAW Coalition for the past six years. She is a remarkable women’s right advocate. She has:

· represented the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to promote women’s rights and gender equality across the region,

· directed the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)where she helped lead a successful global campaign for a new, stronger UN women’s agency and gained international recognition of the gender dimensions of climate change,

· directed programs in women’s rights, social justice and democracy and governance at the Ford Foundation,

· worked for several other agencies and for Congresswoman and WEDO co-founder Bella Abzug, after receiving a Doctor of Jrisprudence cum laude from New York University Law School and a BA from the University of Rochester.

Registration is not required, but will help us plan Register Here or send an email to pgh4cedaw@gmail.com .

Refreshments will be served following our event.

Pittsburghers for CEDAW is a coalition initiated by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, New Voices Pittsburgh, and Women and Girls Foundation, and joined by a growing number of endorsing organizations including the LWVGP, Zonta Club of Pittsburgh, Women's Law Project, ACLU of PA, Human Rights City Alliance, YWCA, Thomas Merton Center, HealthCare 4 All PA.The event is co-sponsored by the Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh.

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