CRC Ratification

There are certain unalienable rights and protections that all human beings should be granted. One such protection should be given to children- a right to freedom, and privacy, especially in terms of governmental oppression and surveillance. However, since the UN proposed a treaty on the rights of children, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1989, three countries have failed to ratify this treaty, which include the Somalia, South Sudan, and yes, the United States of America, the "land of the free."

Some of the reasons given against ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty in the US were that we want parents to be able to homeschool their kids (even if the kid wants to go to public school) and make sure they never learn about other religions or evolution and can't get an abortion without parental consent. Is it just me or are willing to infringe on children's rights for the sake of conservative christian religious ideals? Last time I checked, there is supposed to be a separation of Church and State.

Side note, Vatican City was one of the first ones to ratify! What is going on?

Thought for today

To be able to understand inequities even in terms of unalienable rights and not get angry takes unimaginable patience and optimism (which I seem to somewhat lack) and deserves respect. Bravo to compassionate activists who are calm in temperament!

Powerful quote: "It is precisely the role of human rights to identify the workings of power that keep unacceptable things as they are, and to challenge that power with a different vision of human well-being. The challenge does not have to be confrontational or angry; it can proceed softly, through dialogue and consensus. But it will always be daring because it requires us to dare to imagine a different reality, and to have the courage to call, each in his or her own voice and with his or her own means, for the rearrangements of power necessary to change the unacceptable."