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Where Do We Stand on the Rights of Children?

Victoria Fine | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact

Read More: Eduardo Garcia, Human Rights, Children, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations, Impact News
Victoria Fine

The United States is the only country other than Somalia that has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. To understand why, we sat down with longtime humanitarian, Eduardo Garcia.

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Obama Talks About the Rights of Children

Alexia Parks | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Mentoring, U.N., U.S. Congress, United Nations, President Obama, Parenting, Town Hall Meetings, China, Shanghai, U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, Impact News
Alexia Parks

Of the 193 countries who have signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, only two countries in the world, the United States and Somalia, have refused to ratify it.

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Obama Administration Seeks To Join U.N. Rights Of The Child Convention

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: United Nations, Un, Convention on the Rights of the Child, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Children's Rights, Children, Susan Rice, Susan Rice Un Ambassador, Barack Obama 2008, Obama, President Obama, Somalia, China, Politics News

UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration is reviving efforts to have the United States sign onto a global children's rights treaty ratified by ...

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Seized at 15, Omar Khadr turns 22 in Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Col. Patrick Parrish, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Nathan Whitling, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Omar Khadr, Dennis Edney, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Col. Peter Brownback, Military Commissions, Home News
Andy Worthington

Today, Omar Khadr, the sole Canadian citizen in Guantánamo, marks his 22nd birthday in isolation. Seized in Afghanistan when he was just 15 years old...

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"Screwed up" and "abused": Omar Khadr's Canadian interrogations at Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Nathan Whitling, Omar Khadr, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Omar Khadr Tape, Canada, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In 2003, when he was 16, Omar was visited by representatives of Special Investigations. The video shows Omar displaying his wounds, weeping uncontrollably and pulling at his hair in despair.

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