The United States is one of a few nations that hasn't ratified CEDAW, but a closer look at the content shows that the Senate has been wise to resist for 31 years.

Testimony by Christina Hoff Sommers before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 13, 2002.

Will ratification of the UN Women's Treaty really improve the well-being of women throughout the world? How will ratification affect American life?

CEDAW promotes the notion that rights are things that exist in the abstract--manna from globocrats, NGOs and activist lawyers rather than the responsibilities of nation-states and their political leaders.

CEDAW contains many worthy and indeed noble declarations, but its key provisions are 1970s feminism preserved in diplomatic amber. Releasing those aged provisions in 21st-century America would be strange at best, and at worst they could seriously compromise the privacy, well-being, and basic freedoms of Americans.

Signing United Nations CEDAW treaty is still a very bad idea.

Testimony by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 13, 2002.

Nongovernmental organizations are growing in number and finding ways to survive in China, even though the country's political limits artificially restrict their growth, as they take up political issues but are not yet political actors.