Tuesday, October 9, 2012

US: BIGGEST VIOLATOR OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND LAWS

From nuclear tests to executing juveniles, the US ridicules all laws

Also, in 1999, the Comprehensive (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty was rejected by the US Senate although it was signed by Clinton in 1996, thereby ensuring continued nuclear testing in 2001. December 2001 again witnessed US withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972).

But the worst unbelievable violation that the US has committed has been in the area of juvenile rights. While all other countries have signed and ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, United States has merely signed it, which, according to the Vienna Convention, still makes US liable to abide by the laws of this convention. Amnesty International confirms now, “In the past five years, the United States has executed 13 juvenile offenders.” Since 2000, US is amongst only five countries to have executed juveniles. If that is not heartless, what is...


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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