SRES 279
106th Congress
Senate
International Affairs
Anniversaries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional hearings
Human rights
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations
Sex discrimination against women
Treaties
Treaty-making power
Women
Women's rights
A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations should hold hearings and the Senate should act on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Introduced: March 30, 2000
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Became law
Mar 30, 2000
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1998)
Mar 30, 2000
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should hold hearings on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); and (2) the Senate should act on CEDAW by July 19, 2000, the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Convention by the United States.
What's happening now
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1998)
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