January 26,1996 Note from Susan Roylance, President of United Families International:
The following document is an International Treaty, and was used as authority at the Fourth World Conference in Beijing, to fight against parental rights regarding their minor children. The final "Platform for Action" in Beijing gave the child all rights of privacy, information, etc., with the parents given the opportunity to give "appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the present Convention." The language in another International Treaty, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, states that the upbringing of children shall be a shared responsiblity "between men and women and society as a whole."
Between these two documents, the government can determine "what is in the best interest of the child," including what "belief's of the child's parents" may be detrimental to the child.
Read the document explaining the new United Nations Human Rights pamphlet which talks about religious beliefs that could be harmful to women and children.
>Excerpts from
Convention on the Rights of the Child
This International Treaty was Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989
As of May 1993, 136 countries have signed this document. President Clinton has signed the document, but it is not binding on the U.S. until the U.S. Senate ratifies it. The U.S. Senate has not ratified this document (as of January, 1996) and is not expected to ratify the document unless the Senate changes to a democrat majority. The radical feminists hope to elect enough democract Senators in the election of 1996 to ratify this document in 1997.
The following excerpts from this document refer to government involvement with children:
Preamble:
. . . The United Nations has proclaimed that childhood is entitled to special care and assistance. . . .
. . . Considering that the child should be fully prepared to live an individual life in society, and brought up in the spirit of the ideals proclaimed in the Charter of the United Naitons, and in particular in the spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and solidarity, . . .
Part I, Article 2
2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the child is protected against all forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of the status, activities, expressed opinions, or beliefs of the child's parents, legal guardians, or family members.
Part I, Article 4
States parties shall respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents . . . to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the present Convention.
Article 12
1. States Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.