Parties
193 countries are parties to the convention. The United States, Andorra, the Holy See, and the states with limited recognition are non-parties. The US has signed, but not ratified the treaty.
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“This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party stands and when it rejects those things or forgets the legitimate objects for which parties exist, then as a party it cannot command the honest loyalty of its members.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
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—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)