Children’s Rights
* We applaud the international community coming together to help a million Rwandan refugees (Nov. 30). The U.S. can easily do more to support the most vulnerable among the refugees, the children, by insisting the Senate ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which sets up minimum standards for protecting children.
The main reason the U.S. has not ratified the CRC is because of a campaign of misconception launched by CRC opponents, who erroneously claim the CRC usurps national and state sovereignty and would dictate how Americans raise their children. These claims are misconceptions, since the CRC is a nonenforceable agreement be- tween nations.
To boost U.S. efforts to protect children we must urge Senate ratification of the convention.
JAMES GOODWIN
FRANCES GOODWIN
Seal Beach
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