Hasbara Buster
SENIOR MEMBER
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2010
- Messages
- 4,612
- Reaction score
- -7
United States fails to ratify UN Child Rights treaty
The United States remains one of only three United Nation member states who have not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Press TV reports.
The major issue here is children falling through the cracks here in the United States, said Public Interest and Human Rights Attorney Roy Morris, blaming the current situation on the idea that "the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child has not been ratified here in the United States.
Sign the UN Commission on the Rights of the Child. At least you can go to a UN body and say, by the way, this childs rights are being violated, Morris said.
The attorney criticized the US government for failing to do enough to protect its children, adding that theres no place to go - you cant even go to a federal court - the federal courts in the United States dont want to deal with this issue.
We still treat - as a matter of law - children as property, Morris said.
This comes as many children's rights advocates have condemned US President Barack Obama for failing to keep his 2009 pledge to ratify the treaty and to join international calls to protect children.
If the US doesnt want to answer to the international community, how can it expect all the other countries of the world to do the same? It cant hold the moral high ground if it doesnt want to ratify treaties like the UN Convention on the Right of the Child, Morris concluded.
On December 14, twenty children and six adult victims were fatally shot by a 20-year-old gunman -- who later killed himself -- at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in the town of Newtown in the US state of Connecticut. Earlier in the day, the assailant killed his mother in another location.
Under the UN treaty, children have universal privileges including the right to health, life, identity and protection from abuse, as well as restricting the involvement of children in military conflicts, prohibiting the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Nearly every country in the UN except the United States, Somalia and South Sudan, is bound to the convention.
PressTV - United States fails to ratify UN Child Rights treaty
The United States remains one of only three United Nation member states who have not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Press TV reports.
The major issue here is children falling through the cracks here in the United States, said Public Interest and Human Rights Attorney Roy Morris, blaming the current situation on the idea that "the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child has not been ratified here in the United States.
Sign the UN Commission on the Rights of the Child. At least you can go to a UN body and say, by the way, this childs rights are being violated, Morris said.
The attorney criticized the US government for failing to do enough to protect its children, adding that theres no place to go - you cant even go to a federal court - the federal courts in the United States dont want to deal with this issue.
We still treat - as a matter of law - children as property, Morris said.
This comes as many children's rights advocates have condemned US President Barack Obama for failing to keep his 2009 pledge to ratify the treaty and to join international calls to protect children.
If the US doesnt want to answer to the international community, how can it expect all the other countries of the world to do the same? It cant hold the moral high ground if it doesnt want to ratify treaties like the UN Convention on the Right of the Child, Morris concluded.
On December 14, twenty children and six adult victims were fatally shot by a 20-year-old gunman -- who later killed himself -- at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in the town of Newtown in the US state of Connecticut. Earlier in the day, the assailant killed his mother in another location.
Under the UN treaty, children have universal privileges including the right to health, life, identity and protection from abuse, as well as restricting the involvement of children in military conflicts, prohibiting the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Nearly every country in the UN except the United States, Somalia and South Sudan, is bound to the convention.
PressTV - United States fails to ratify UN Child Rights treaty
