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HR0075 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


  

 


 
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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, On November 20, 1989, the United Nations General
3Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child
4(Convention) to promote basic human rights for all children;
5and
 
6    WHEREAS, The Convention aims to protect children from
7discrimination, neglect, and abuse by establishing a full range
8of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights; and
 
9    WHEREAS, With the exception of the United States, South
10Sudan, and Somalia, every other member state of the United
11Nations - 193 countries - have ratified and accepted the
12Convention; and
 
13    WHEREAS, Although the United States had considerable
14influence in the drafting of the Convention and subsequently
15signed it on February 16, 1995, the Convention has never been
16presented to the U.S. Senate for advise and consent - the
17necessary and final step to U.S. ratification; and
 
18    WHEREAS, Without U.S. Senate approval, the Convention has
19no effect on children living in the United States, thereby
20leaving them without the protections contained within this
21important treaty; and
 

 

 

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1    WHEREAS, Former President Obama has called the United
2States' failure to ratify the Convention "embarrassing";
3therefore, be it
 
4    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
5HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
6urge President Donald Trump to submit the U.N. Convention on
7the Rights of the Child to the U.S. Senate for its advice and
8consent without delay, and further call on the U.S. Senate to
9move swiftly to approve the Convention; and be it further
 
10    RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
11delivered to President Trump, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch
12McConnell, and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.