Fighting for women – in and out of the workplace

On the final day of their national conference, UNISON delegates passed motions on a number of major issues affecting women’s rights, in and out of the workplace.
In the first, the union is now seeking the implementation of CEDAW (the United Nations convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women) into domestic legislation.
The convention is exclusively devoted to gender equality. One of the core human rights treaties of the UN, it requires any country that ratifi