US Ratification Of The Convention On The Rights Of The Child
The United States has signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but is one of three UN members not to have ratified it (other non-ratifying members being Somalia and South Sudan).
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““We’ll encounter opposition, won’t we, if we give women the same education that we give to men,” Socrates says to Galucon. “For then we’d have to let women ... exercise in the company of men. And we know how ridiculous that would seem.” ... Convention and habit are women’s enemies here, and reason their ally.”
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