Support US ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), joining the rest of humanity in helping children live better lives.
Please Sign Our Petition to the President!Please write, email or telephone the White House to ask President Obama to do what’s necessary to send to the Senate his recommendation to ratify the CRC.
You can use the letter we sent him, now signed by about 120 national organizations, at http://www.childrightscampaign.org/take-action/ask-the-president/send-him-a-letter-like-ours. Contact the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 20500; email through http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments, or phone (202) 456-1111.
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Why Ratify?
The CRC, incorporates the full range of human rights — civil, cultural, economic, political, and social — into one text that promotes and protects the well-being of the world’s children and their families. Read more
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On this date in 1990 the General Assembly approved the CRC.
Ratification & Implementation
- will help us to focus our energies and resources where our children need them the most,
- will give added help to children in exercising their rights in the United States & other countries
- will protect US parents’ rights to raise their children,
- will provide a way to assess comprehensively the law and policy on children’s rights and well-being in the US,
- will help Americans to have a much more effective voice in discussions with other governments and in international organizations to improve parents’ and children’s rights and well-being.
- will restore US leadership in human rights and improving conditions for children everywhere.
- will be in accordance with Federal and State Constitutions and statutes.
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