Here's an interesting point she made this week about human rights:
Child Rights
I learned something I never knew from reading the Human Rights Watch web site tonight.
"The United States is one of only two countries in the world that have not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Somalia –a country without an internationally-recognized government–is the other. The Children’s Rights Division has focused its efforts on U.S. practice in three areas that fall measurably short of standards included in the Convention on the Rights of the Child — conditions for children in the justice system, detention of children by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and the use of children as soldiers."
Here is the most shocking fact in this article — there are 2,225 youth offenders currently serving life without parole in the United States.
“Human rights must be made a fact, not an idealistic dream.”