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The original documents are located in Box 36, folder "World Law Day" of the William J.
Baroody Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 36 of the William J. Baroody Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
OF THE UNITED SHE
OF
STATE
World Law Day, 1975
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Recognizing the need to destroy the discriminatory barriers of legal inequality
which confront women throughout the world, the United Nations General Assem-
bly proclaimed 1975 as International Women's Year.
At home, the President, by Proclamation No. 4262, set aside the year 1975 as
International Women's Year in the United States, and, by Executive Order No.
11832, created a National Commission on the Observance of International
Women's Year. In 1972, the Congress adopted a proposed constitutional amend-
ment which would ensure the equality of men and women before the law. If a few
more States ratify that proposed amendment, it will become a fitting constitutional
heritage of our Bicentennial era
Our efforts at home have been linked with those of other nations. This year,
citizens of the United States participated in the world Conference on International
Women's Year held in Mexico City on June 19 through July 2, 1975, to develop
guidelines for a sustained, long-term effort to achieve the objectives of International
Women's Year.
Also this year, members of our Nation's legal profession will be joined by law-
yers, professors, and jurists from more than one hundred nations during the week of
October 12, 1975, at a World Law Conference, under the auspices of the World
Peace Through Law Center, held in our Nation's capital. The agenda of the World
Law Conference will deal with a host of international legal issues, ranging from
the role of multinational companies to laws governing oil pollution at sea.
The theme of the World Law Conference is the achievement of legal equality
between men and women. A portion of the agenda will be devoted to discussing
the elimination of discrimination against women.
The President of the United States, along with the leaders of other nations,
for more than a decade has encouraged the significant international efforts repre-
sented by these World Law Conferences. With its theme of legal equality between
men and women, it is fitting, during this International Women's Year, to do SO
again.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United
States of America, do hereby designate Sunday, October 12, 1975, as World Law
Day in the United States.
I call upon all Americans, men and women, especially members of the legal,
educational and religious communities, to give recognition to the importance of
law in our Nation's international quest for peace, human dignity and equality
before the law for women and men.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of
October, in the year-of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five, and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of America the two hundredth.
Gerall R. Ford
THE UNITED THE OF SEAL
World Law Day, 1975
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Recognizing the need to destroy the discriminatory barriers of legal inequality
which confront women throughout the world, the United Nations General Assem-
bly proclaimed 1975 as International Women's Year.
At home, the President, by Proclamation No. 4262, set aside the year 1975 as
International Women's Year in the United States, and, by Executive Order No.
11832, created a National Commission on the Observance of International
Women's Year. In 1972, the Congress adopted a proposed constitutional amend-
ment which would ensure the equality of men and women before the law. If a few
more States ratify that proposed amendment, it will become a fitting constitutional
heritage of our Bicentennial era
Our efforts at home have been linked with those of other nations. This year,
citizens of the United States participated in the world Conference on International
Women's Year held in Mexico City on June 19 through July 2, 1975, to develop
guidelines for a sustained, long-term effort to achieve the objectives of International
Women's Year.
Also this year, members of our Nation's legal profession will be joined by law-
yers, professors, and jurists from more than one hundred nations during the week of
October 12, 1975, at a World Law Conference, under the auspices of the World
Peace Through Law Center, held in our Nation's capital. The agenda of the World
Law Conference will deal with a host of international legal issues, ranging from
the role of multinational companies to laws governing oil pollution at sea.
The theme of the World Law Conference is the achievement of legal equality
between men and women. A portion of the agenda will be devoted to discussing
the elimination of discrimination against women.
The President of the United States, along with the leaders of other nations,
for more than a decade has encouraged the significant international efforts repre-
sented by these World Law Conferences. With its theme of legal equality between
men and women, it is fitting, during this International Women's Year, to do SO
again.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United
States of America, do hereby designate Sunday, October 12, 1975, as World Law
Day in the United States.
I call upon all Americans, men and women, especially members of the legal,
educational and religious communities, to give recognition to the importance of
law in our Nation's international quest for peace, human dignity and equality
before the law for women and men.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of
October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five, and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of America the two hundredth.
Gerall R. Ford