Zonta International’s Advocacy Program
Zonta International advocates to promote the human rights of
women at international, national and local levels. Zonta advocacy
promotes real equality in all aspects for women. Zonta seeks to
take fact-based actions, to highlight root causes of problems and
to present solutions with proven results. Advocacy is an issue
related thrust, and our efforts are not linked to any political party.
District 3 clubs all have advocacy programs to work on problems
of inequality of pay, since in the United States, women have to
work nearly 16 months to earn the same amount that men earn
for working in the same jobs for a year. Our clubs also are
working to raise the minimum wage in our country. A great
percentage of the people living below the poverty level are
women, and so increasing the minimum wage is very much a
womens issue.
In addition, clubs work on local and state laws which limit the
equality of women. These advocacy efforts could include local or
state issues such as police and judicial procedures, property
rights, age discrimination, and other issues which involve
discrimination against women’s human rights. Our advocacy
efforts also work to eliminating actions which perpetuate violence
against women in its many forms. In addition, District 3 clubs
support the passage of CEDAW, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, in the
United States.
© Zonta District 3 2015
Advocacy
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Click here for the Advocacy Position Paper on Migration
Click here for the Advocacy Position Paper on Prostitution
Click here for the Statement on Women’s RIghts and Non-State Terrorist
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