News & Events
January 2025
Jill Follows, co-founder, was appointed to the Human Relations Advisory Commission in Westfield, NJ for 2025-2027. The tasks of the commission are to promote inclusivity, foster empathy and understanding, celebrate diversity, and denounce hate of any kind.
Westfield celebrates AddamsFest annually to honor Chas Addams, the creator of Morticia, Gomez, Lurch, The Thing, and other members of the Addams Family. You may think they are creepy and kooky. They are also diverse and welcoming.
January 2025
President Jimmy Carter gave American women a foothold and hope for human rights. His leadership, faith, and political will led him to sign the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women on July 17, 1980. We are disappointed that the US Senate has not yet ratified CEDAW.
We share our gratitude for his visionary feminism with a grateful nation. We persevere to enact this legacy across our nation from small towns to the Halls of Congress.
December 2024
Co-founder Kathleen Montgomery presented “The Struggle for Women’s Right to Vote: Key Turning Points” during the holiday gathering of the League of Women Voters of Orange Coast. Long before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) proclaimed that the will of the people shall be by universal and equal suffrage, the struggle for women’s human right to vote was met with violence and intolerance in America. This chapter in our history is memorialized at the Turning Point Memorial in Occoquan VA.
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.
