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Conventions From the moment of its inception, CIM has served as an international forum where the concerns of women were brought into the foreground of public discourse by the member states of the Pan American Union, and later, the OAS. Governments of the member states, through this process, became committed internationally to address these issues. Using international commitments as leverage, CIM has supported the efforts of women in individual OAS member countries to secure their civil and political rights. To this end, CIM has drafted and promoted international conventions, which recognize women's rights and establish a standard against which the provisions of national laws are judged and eventually changed. The principal Inter-American conventions for which CIM has been responsible are: The importance of these conventions cannot be overestimated. They were all the first of their kind in the world and predated the efforts of other international organizations and other regional agreements to achieve similar ends. The Convention of the Nationality of Women was the first international treaty on women's rights in the history of the world. The Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women, which entered into effect on March 5, 1995, has become a standard-setting instrument in the struggle against gender-based violence.
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