In his address to the United Nations today President Donald Trump stated that "it is a massive source of embarrassment for the United Nations that some governments with egregious human rights records sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council.” President Trump made the remark in his debut address to the United Nations General Assembly today as part of a broader call for the UN to make reforms. Read more here.
Many of these human rights abuses are against children and their families around the world. Suffer the Children: How the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Has Not Supported Children, 22 N.Y. Int’l. L. Rev. 57 (Summer 2009), discusses how the UN has allowed the trafficking and sale of children for years, despite the pronouncement of rights for children in the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). And most recently, 25 years after the UN’s adoption of the CRC in 1989, A Brief Assessment of the 25-Year Effect of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, (presented at the International Scholars Association, Toronto, CA, March 25, 2014; published at 23 Cardozo J. Int’l. & Compar. L. 323 (2015)) discusses the facts regarding the plight of children around the globe despite the human rights protections supposedly established for children in the CRC.
This report provides a small window of insight regarding the continuation and growth of atrocities experienced by children in numbers large enough to demand attention. These atrocities include child sex trafficking, child slavery, child soldiering, child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM), and child sacrifice. How can children still be subject to such cruelty at the 25th Anniversary of the CRC? This report challenges not only whether the CRC has been a success for children, but why it has not protected them from such heinous atrocities. The third part of this report discusses what can legitimately be done to improve the lives of children in signatory nations away from these atrocities by offering an interdisciplinary approach of legal, governmental, and social professionals toward more than simply CRC implementation, but actual child protection.
Family restoration includes global protection of children as a matter of basic human rights.
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