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}}</ref> The effect is to render the [[ICCPR]] toothless in the United States. | }}</ref> The effect is to render the [[ICCPR]] toothless in the United States. | ||
Madeleine Albright, then ambassador to the United Nations, signed the [[UN-CRC]] on behalf of the United States on 16 February 1995. The [[UN-CRC]], however, is at variance with United States law, so it has never been submitted to the Senate of the United States for ratification. The United States is the only country in the world that is not a state-party to the [[UN-CRC]], so the [[UN-CRC]] has only moral authority in the United States. | Madeleine Albright, then ambassador to the United Nations, signed the [[UN-CRC]] on behalf of the United States on 16 February 1995. The [[UN-CRC]], however, is at variance with United States law, so it has never been submitted to the Senate of the United States for ratification. The [[United States of America]] is the only country in the world that is not a state-party to the [[UN-CRC]], so the [[UN-CRC]] has only moral authority in the United States. | ||
==Human Rights and non-therapeutic child circumcision== | ==Human Rights and non-therapeutic child circumcision== | ||