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Article: Winning a Magna Carta for children.(Columns)(15th anniversary of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child)(United States has not ratified the treaty)(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 26, 2003
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In 1990 the United Nations created a new world voice for children. It promulgated the Convention on the Rights of the Child. To the delight of the world the convention was rapidly ratified by every nation on the earth except Somalia and, alas, the United States.
This Magna Carta for children gave rights for the first time in history to the 40 percent of the human race that is under the age of 18. Those rights center on food, health, education and the family. The 192 nations that have ratified the convention have promised and pledged that they will do all in their power to bring the guarantees of the 40 articles of this document to all of the minors within their ...