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Hola y'all...

Greeting friends...  

Will you and your organization help us protect the human rights of the millions of children here in the USA?  

Organizations like Amnesty International and LULAC National, the Cesar Chavez foundation, Border Ambassadors and Human Rights Watch, Pax Cristi and Child Rights Campaign are already partnering with and helping us.  Would your organization like to be added to the list?  If we have the will to protect the rights of others...we have the power.     

The mission of Rights of the Child USA campaign is to promote the ratification by the United States of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ChildThis is an international treaty, yet twenty years later, with the exception of the failed state of Somalia, the United States is the only country in the world that has refused to guarantee our children the most basic human rights that are in force around the world.  

This November 20th marks the 20th anniversary of the Rights of the Child. There are events across the country to highlight this cause.  Here in Texas, we will be holding a press conference at the Federal Building at the US Senators' offices on Friday, the 20th.  On Saturday the 21st, we will be holding a rally on the Capitol steps in Austin. followed by a march.  

We have a website here.  www.rightsofthechild.com  On this website is a petition developed for us by Amnesty International directed to the US Senate to ratify the 1989 treaty.  It will take 67 of the 100 Senators to get the treaty ratified so that the millions of children here in the USA will have the same human rights that are recognized in the other 193 countries around the world.   

If you and/or your organization would like to partner with us in this effort, here's what we ask that you do. 

1. Go www.rightsofthechild.com
2. Sign the Amnesty International petition.
3. Sign up to represent your state in the 50 state campaign to reach out to your Senators.
4. Circulate the website and petition to your members and friends and in your social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
5. Provide us with a logo and link for your organization that we can post on our "Partners" page.
6. Link www.rightsofthechild.comto your website...and add our logo.

7. Please note the events page and please promote and support the event nearest you.   

Below is the press release that we have sent out to our media friends.  Please help us help the children by getting the word out to your media contacts, whether local, state, national or even international.  Let's make Rights of the Child in the USA a national priority. 

We have the power.  Let's exercise it on behalf of the children... 

Jay 

Rights of the Child USA

Border Ambassadors

Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.

(830)734-8636

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 MEDIA ADVISORY

Why hasn't the US ratified UN Convention for the Rights of the Child (CRC)?

CONTACT:Rights of the Child USA, Jay Johnson Castro, 830 734 8636, jay@villadelrio.com

AUSTIN TX.November 20 marks the 20th anniversary of the most universally ratified of all UN human rights treaties with 193 members. Two UN member nations have abstained from ratification to date: the United States and the failed state of Somalia. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice has recently broached the subject of U.S. ratification, and Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia) has introduced H.R. 416 which presses several human-rights issues, among them Senate ratification of Rights of the Child. It is time to correct this failure.

Rights of the Child USA is a coalition of organizations representing the interests of religious, education, health care, humanitarian, labor, legal, and social service communities nationwide with a focus on this single goal. Their activities will be reported at www.rightsofthechild.com.

The story we highlight today is the reality behind our national failure to join the world community o f good will in this action. It is this story that we ask you, the press, to highlight over the coming weeks. It encompasses complex issues, each deserving critical attention to help the American people understand their responsibility to act.

A few political organizations have succeeded in portraying the CRC as a threat to our families and our national sovereignty. Two decades of a Republican Congress, inspired by the largesse of such organizations as the Christian Coalition, Concerned Women for America, Eagle Forum, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, and the National Center for Home Education, have effectively prevented the U.S. from joining -- indeed, leading -- the rest of the world in this essential initiative.

CRC simply provides guidelines to establish the basic respect a child deserves from all adults, whether relatives, teachers, or strangers. It has no power to require parents to alter their own beliefs; rather it seeks to create a climate in which any child can achieve his/her potential through a loving society. Because the treaty has been operational in most nations since 1990, a wealth of information is available to show its effect on participants (see links below). 

We invite you, the Fourth Estate, to make November 2009 a special month for the child. Below are some questions we ask you to explore, with research links. We thank you for honoring your essential role by addressing the understandable fears of some Americans, thus lighting our path toward this important decision and helping us to reimagine our country's priorities about childhood.

Questions:

What is the history and background of the Convention of the Rights of the Child?
FAQ from UN: http://www.hcs.ohiou.edu/omep/docs/CRCFAQ%20Final%5B1%5D.htm
AP article with comprehensive background info  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30481716/

UNICEF on CRC:  http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/ 

How has CRC impacted countries that have adopted it?

Australia:  A nation tending toward conservative leadership shows itself quite comfortable with the positive results from and lack of coercion exacted by CRC.
http://www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights/children/aus_commitment_to_children_rights.html

Child Rights Club in Zambia: http://www.unicef.org/evaldatabase/files/Zambia_Child_Rights_Clubs_2005.pdf
And even in Hanoi!: http://www.vietnamembassy-usa.org/news/story.php?d=20030709133925

How do children fare in the U.S.?

American Humane Assn: Annotated statistical summary of child life in America (2006).
http://www.americanhumane.org/about-us/newsroom/fact-sheets/americas-children.html

Deportation by the U.S. government of some 90,000 unaccompanied Mexican children, dumped on border. http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/thousands-of-children-dumped-into-squalor-by-bushs-deportation-policies/  

Pennsylvania judges charged with accepting $2.8 in kickbacks to send youths to private detention centers. AP October 30, 2009; 8:48
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001089.html

Texas: 1201 deaths from child abuse 2001-07, other stats http://www.everychildmatters.org/Texas/About/Quick-Facts.html

How are our children doing compared with those of other countries?

Among the 30 member countries of the U.N. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, we've been rated 23rd in material well being, 24th in health and safety, and 25th in education.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/19/4/43570328.pdf

U.S. ranks number one for teen-age births? 
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/repcard3e.pdf

http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/national-data/teen-pregnancy-birth-rates.aspx

How do the family values of anti-ROC organizations resonate with public policy?

Texas Freedom Network: http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/Kids_at_Risk_Brief.pdf?docID=283

For further research


US govt: America's Children at a Glance
http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/glance.asp

U. WS. DHHS Administration for Children and Families
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/index.htm#afcars

Child Welfare Information Gateway:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/long_term_consequences.cfm
Children's Defense Fund: http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/

The Campaign for U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) http://childrightscampaign.org

Amnesty International on CRC:    http://www.amnestyusa.org/crc

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