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Barbara Boxer: We call on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the U.S. Senate to move forward to pass the International Violence…

On the recordJune 23, 2014
We call on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the U.S. Senate to move forward to pass the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA) and to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in this Congress.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Urging the Senate to pass key legislation for women's rights.

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