US HR1094

House Resolution calls on the Senate to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

CEDAW was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, but has never received a full Senate vote

189 countries have ratified CEDAW; the U.S. remains among only 6 nations that have not, alongside Iran, Palau, Somalia, Sudan, and Tongo

Resolution cites World Bank data showing approximately 2.7 billion working-age women lack equal economic opportunity, with 176 countries maintaining legal barriers to women's full economic participation

Several U.S. cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Honolulu have passed binding local ordinances implementing CEDAW principles