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Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
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AS APPROVED BY THE ABA HOUSE OF DELEGATES AUGUST 1995

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND PRACTICE
STANDING COMMITTEE ON WORLD ORDER UNDER LAW

RECOMMENDATION

Resolved, That the American Bar Association reaffirms its support for the ratification by the United States of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, with the same reservations, understandings and declarations previously supported; and

Further Resolved, That the ABA supports in principle, the development of an individual right of petition as an optional protocol to the Women's Convention as described in the Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in September 1995.

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