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==Acceptance of international human rights law in the United States of America==
[https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi Article Six] of the Constitution of the United States makes treaties part of the "supreme law of the land".
The Congress of the United States of American, therefore, historically has been protective of the sovereign rights of the United States and reluctant to surrender them by treaty.
The United States Senate ratified the ICCPR in 1992, but it doing so, it took an extraordinary number of reservations, understandings, and declarations. With these reservations, the ICCPR does not provide a cause for action in United States courts.<ref>{{REFdocument
Madeleine Albright, then ambassador to the United Nations, signed the CRC on behalf of the United States on 16 February 1995. The 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 CRC.
==Human Rights and non-therapeutic child circumcision==
Several authorities have condemned the practice of non-therapeutic child circumcision.
Jacqueline Smith (1998) writing for the [https://www.uu.nl/en/research/netherlands-institute-of-human-rights-sim Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)], concluded:
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In my view, the best way to do justice to the rights of the child is to do no harm, to let it enjoy life in every aspect and to protect it against influences not asked for. Regardless of whether a child is a boy or a girl, neither should be subject to a tradition which is harmful. When the child is of consenting age, fully informed about all possibilities which lay ahead of him or her, it can make up his or her own mind and choose the way he or she thinks is best.<ref name="smith1998">{{REFweb
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