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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-09-24 Public Comment - J. Strout - We are part of a Movement!! Cities for CEDAW 10th Anniversary NewsletterFrom:Jan Strout To:Bozeman Public Comment Subject:[EXTERNAL][BULK] We are part of a Movement!! Cities for CEDAW 10th Anniversary Newsletter Date:Friday, July 5, 2024 8:06:56 AM Attachments:Bozeman Cities For CEDAW Anniversary Mayoral Proclamation March 19, 2024.docx CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Bozeman City for CEDAW Task Force, Some Hopeful News! Thank you to Mayor Terry Cunningham for his Mayoral Proclamation in support of the 10th Anniversary of Cities for CEDAW - some of us may have missed (see attached)! Read about the National Cities for CEDAW 10th Anniversary News (see below) from our Women's Intercultural Network which Bozeman City for CEDAW Task Force is proud to be apart. Many of these national and global women' leaders have been our mentors to establish and implement our CEDAW Resolution. And Congratulations to the Cities for CEDAW awardee Washington DC for their CEDAWOrdinance actions to advance the human rights of women and girls in all our diversity: NGO CSW/NY Honors Washington DC with Cities for CEDAW Award! (mailchi.mp) Onward/Adelante! In solidarity, Jan Jan Strout pronouns: she/ella co-leader, Bozeman for CEDAW women's human rights Task Force and Member, National Cities for CEDAW Advisory Board Follow Us: Facebook Bozeman, Montana 206.251.0880 "If you are free, free somebody else. If you have some power, your job is to empower somebody else." - Toni Morrison 10th Anniversary of Cities For CEDAW Reimagining Cities for CEDAW- From Campaign to Movement Elahe Amani, President of Women's Intercultural Network ( WIN ) In 2024, the global landscape of women's human rights faces formidable challenges alongside notable milestones. Despite unprecedented threats to hard-wonprogress in women's rights globally and in the United States, this year marks two significant anniversaries: the45th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)and the 10th anniversary of the Cities for CEDAW Campaign in the United States. As we reflect on the history of these groundbreaking initiatives, we honor the tirelessefforts of advocates who have shaped the fight for gender equality and human rights. CEDAW's Origins and U.S. Involvement In December 1979, four years after the inaugural UN Women's Conference in MexicoCity in 1975, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which entered into force as an international treaty on September 3, 1981, following its ratification by thetwentieth country. CEDAW, also known as the Bill of Rights for Women and Girls in All their Diversity, is alandmark international convention that has played a crucial role in promoting gender equality and challenging discrimination against women. American women wereinstrumental in the development and advocacy of CEDAW, with Patricia Hutar, appointed by the Nixon Administration, playing a key role in negotiating theconvention's text. Continue .....https://wordpress.com/post/winwomenspeak.wordpress.com/1170 Interview with Soon-Young Yoon Elahe Amani Soon-Young Yoon is a Korean-American advocate for women's human rights and author of "Citizen of the World -- Soon-Young and the UN." She currently serves as a United Nations representative of the International Alliance of Women. In 2020, she founded the Cities for CEDAW History and Futures Project, of which she is currently co-director. She is the main representative of the International Alliance of Women to the United Nations ECOSOC. In that capacity, she was Chair of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, from 2011 to 2015, during which the committee launched the Cities for CEDAW campaign. In 2014, she received the CEDAW award for International Comity from the Friends of the Commission on the Status of Women in San Francisco. As a champion of the Cities for CEDAW campaign over the past decade, how do you suggest ensuring the Cities For CEDAW ( C4C ) continued relevance andadaptability in the face of shifting political landscapes? The media, public education, and movement building are the most important phases ofpassing an ordinance. To ensure sustainable, effective implementation, building consensus through community consciousness-raising is critical. Feminist and womenleaders are most successful if they use the campaign to build strong coalitions around activities such as school programs, youth education, media campaigns, and outreach tocity officials. Activists used petitions, briefings for mayors, as well as demonstrations and marches. Continue reading ....https://wordpress.com/post/winwomenspeak.wordpress.com/1119 Front Row/Back Stage /On Stage: My Perspective on WIN and Cities for CEDAW Gail James, Coordinator, Cities for CEDAW Campaign & board member of Women’s Intercultural Network How fortunate I have been to have had multipleconnections to WIN and Cities for CEDAW: I’ve hada front-row seat. I’ve worked the backstage. And I’ve had a principal On Stage Role. History My connection began in 1976 when I met Marilyn Fowler. We worked together on a grant to recognize women during the US Bicentennial celebration. She connected me to her “tribe,” as she called colleagues. This was her pattern and why she excelled at organizational development, building networks and coalitions, training young women, and, most importantly, creating lifelongfriends and admirers. In the 80’s, Marilyn invited me into the Commission on the Status of Women activism. By the early 1990s, we had collaborated, shared friends and interests, and rejoiced as the 2nd Wave of Feminism evolved. Through Marilyn, I met Eileen Hernandez, Fay Wattleston, Dolores Huerta, Loretta Ross, Betty Friedan, and Bella Abzug, the foremothers of our time. In 1994, we attended an International Women’s conference, where the Women’s Intercultural Network (WIN) was conceived in collaborative commitment to global women’s lives. Continue ...... https://winwomenspeak.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/a-brief-history-of-cities-for-cedaw/ Interview with Krishanti Dharmaraj This interview was done by Elahe Amaniand with special thanks to Gail James for transcriptionKrishanti Dharmaraj is a human rights advocate and a practitioner dedicated torealizing safety, equity, and well-being within communities, institutions, cities,and the wider world. As the founding executive director of Women’s Institute forLeadership Development for Human Rights, Ms. Dharmaraj co-founded the US Human Rights Network to ensure the US government’s accountability to human rights standards within US borders, and with her leadership, San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to passlegislation implementing an international human rights treaty. As a result of passing CEDAW in San Francisco, the city implemented a gender analysis indepartments that impacted employment, programming and service delivery, and resource allocation. Currently, this public policy strategy is being implemented incities across the United States. Elahe Amani: Dear Krishanti, 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the Citiesfor CEDAW campaign. With your dedicated leadership, San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to pass legislation implementing an international human rights treaty, and Women’s Intercultural Network was the founding partner of civil society. As a result of passing CEDAW in San Francisco, the city implemented a gender analysis in departments that impacted employment, programming and service delivery, and resource allocation. What inspired you to embark on this journey? Is the Campaignwhere you had hoped it would be a decade later? If not, why? First of all, I want to thank you and WIN for doing this work. I want to separate thetrajectories: The passing and implementation of CEDAW will make human rights, specificallywomen’s human rights, relevant within the US post-Beijing. It began in 1996 with a human right training we organized in San Francisco. The ordinance on CEDAW was a very bold move for us. I want to recognize Patti Chang, Women’s Foundation and Cossette Thompson, Amnesty International, because we could not have succeeded if we didn’t work collectively and supported one another to move forward the strategy to implement CEDAW at the local level. Within 10 years, we were able to witness the impact of CEDAW that contributed positively to the lives of women and girls in San Francisco. Continue reading .... https://winwomenspeak.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/an-interview-with-krishanti-dharmaraj/ A RATIFY MOVEMENT FOR CEDAW STORY Mary Steiner, Co-Founder, Ratify Movement, Former President and now Ex Officio Director, United Nations Association, USA, San Francisco (UNA SF) We women determined to achieve freedom from discrimination collaborate monthly on the Ratify Movement Monthly Meeting platform provided by the United Nations Association, USA,San Francisco (UNA SF). On the third Thursday of each month at midday PacificTime, we include colleagues in progress reports as wellas feature a leader and networking. Individuals from organizations are featured, such as the Cities for CEDAW, UNA USA Women’s Affinity Group, SFCAHT, NCJW, International Alliance of Women, Amnesty International, NOW, International Alliance of Women, League of Women Voters, International Youth Conference, Zonta, National Association of Social Workers, CA Technology Section, as well as various Status of Women Commissions. Continue .... https://winwomenspeak.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/a-ratify-movement-for-cedaw-story/ The CEDAW Challange Nancy Bremeau, Commissioner, Santa Clara County & Founder, The CEDAW Challenge The CEDAW Challenge [1] was launched in November 2021 by the CEDAW Challenge TEAM and Santa Clara County Board Supervisor Susan Ellenberg. [2] It was designed as a reboot of the original CEDAW Challenge issued by the late San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, whichwas issued at the 2015 U.S. Conference of Mayors. The purpose of the new CEDAW Challenge is to inviteelected and appointed officials and members of affiliated organizations across the country to join inthe effort of passing CEDAW Resolutions and Adopting Ordinances. The Challenge signatories include California State Controller, Malia Cohen [3], and California State Senator and Chair of the Women’s Legislative Caucus, Nancy Skinner [4] among many others. You can sign the challenge with your own affiliation (LWV, AAUW, ZONTA, UNA, SOROPTIMISTS, NWPC, NOW, NARAL, etc.) and help by forwarding the link to the Challenge to your own elected and appointed officials and ask them to sign the Challenge today!! For questions, please contact the CEDAW Challenge Founder, and Cities for CEDAW National Advisory Board Member Nancy Bremeau [5] at nancy@bremeau.net. Please click on the link to sign, see excerpt from the Challengebelow. Continue reading..... https://winwomenspeak.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/the-cedaw-challenge/ Book Review : Elahe Amani Making Rights Real for Future Generations (A CEDAWWorkbook), authored by Krishanti Dharmaraj and Soon- young Yoon, is a comprehensive workbook designed tofacilitate the local implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination AgainstWomen (CEDAW), widely regarded as the Bill of Rights for women and girls. This workbook builds upon theearlier publication, Making Rights Real (WILD, 2006), which focused on implementing CEDAW in US cities.The current workbook aligns with the objectives of the Cities for CEDAW campaign, launched in 2014 by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, in collaboration with grassroots organizations. The campaign promotes gender equality and human rights for girls and women in all their diversity by implementing CEDAW. The workbook provides a concise and accessible overview of key topics, including therelevance of human rights, coalition-building, government efforts for implementation, working toward change, and the interconnectedness of local and global initiatives.Additionally, the workbook includes the complete text of CEDAW, making it a valuable resource for young activists and scholars seeking to integrate women's human rightsinto local laws and jurisdictions. By engaging with this workbook, readers can better understand the practical steps necessary to realize gender equality and human rights at the local level. SUPPORT WIN, JOIN/RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP WIN seeks funds and resources to expand our effective network for the benefit of girlsand women locally and globally without hope, homes, or resources. 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