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November 20, 2009

US Ratification Urged on 20th Anniversary of Children’s Rights Convention
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The declaration came on the eve of today’s twentieth anniversary of the
UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, the most widely and speedily
ratified human rights treaty in the world. The US has joined Somalia as
the only states to refuse to ratify the convention. In a statement, Jo
Becker of Human Rights Watch called the US stance an “embarrassment”,
adding, “The US [is] in the sole company of Somalia, a country with no
government.”



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