News & Events
October 2024
Throughout 2026 many of America’s small towns, large cities and states will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here is an opportunity to join our campaign and use this milestone in our country’s history to champion women who strove, and continue to strive, for women’s rights and freedoms.
September 2024
Our video series, The CEDAW Trilogy, was highlighted at a parallel event during the UN Summit of the Future Action Days. This link takes you to the segment of the video where advocates raise arguments for and against a CEDAW resolution in a US city. Our section of the video starts at 45:10.
September 2024
Our poem RISE FOR PEACE was submitted to the catalogue of creative works hosted by the Cities for CEDAW History and Futures Project on the occasion of Cities for CEDAW’s 10th anniversary parallel event called “A Culture of Peace.”
June 2024
Jill Follows, HRSIG co-founder and IAW Representative at UN Headquarters New York, submitted a report to the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (WGDAWG) identifying the localizing CEDAW campaign as a best practice.
