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Adoption of CEDAW (1979)
On the Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution map as “CEDAW is adopted”
18 Dec 1979 — By 130 votes to none, the UN General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The convention enters into force on 3 September 1981, after twenty states have ratified it.
When 18 Dec 1979 Type Turning point Chapter UN Decade for Women and CEDAW (chapter 6 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)Atlas Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015 TURNING POINT · PROTEST AND CHANGE: SECOND-WAVE FEMINISM AND TUNISIA, 1945–2015 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · UN Treaty Collection: CEDAW treaty status · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical polities · Natural Earth 1:10m countries and physical geography · Natural Earth 1:10m administrative references (US states and Berlin)
Source details United Nations Treaty Collection. Factual historical evidence; no source prose reproduced Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected source records; component selection, documented unions and date proxies; projected for display. Natural Earth. Public domain · Property selection and semantic ID normalization; full coordinates retained. An upstream Egyptian ring self-intersection is repaired with area change below 1e-9 square degrees; see natural-earth-admin0-review.json. Natural Earth. Public domain Modern reference outlines locate the historical thematic data. The underlying rights/protest classifications remain unchanged.
Germany uses dated East/West source extents together with a Berlin reference; Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union use reviewed historical extents. For Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, the 1953–68 references are retained where later Cliopatria records show military occupation rather than treaty-party territory.
reconstruction: 1953–1968 · reconstruction: 1958–1989; 1976–1989 · reconstruction: Cartographic device · vector: 1949–1990 · vector: 1953–1968 · vector: 1976–2023
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