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Local Advocacy Organizations Want To Make Pittsburgh A 'CEDAW' City

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is working to make the world a better place for women to live. The goals of the organization include ending sex trafficking and violence against women, expanding girls' access to education, ensuring women's right to vote and many more. The organization aims to make Pittsburgh a CEDAW city. To accomplish this goal they’re hosting the event Pittsburgh: No Limits for Women. Keynote speaker keynote speaker will be June Zeitlin, Director of Human Rights Policy at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Washington, DC will join us.

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