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}}</ref> The effect is to render the ICCPR toothless in the United States.
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, so the CRC has only moral authority in the United States.
==Human Rights and non-therapeutic child circumcision==
The Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) took a strong position against non-therapeutic child circumcision in 2010.
* {{REFdocument |title=Non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors |url=https://www.knmg.nl/web/file?uuid=4f46a948-1a37-4ee4-95be-976b541ec6ee&owner=5c945405-d6ca-4deb-aa16-7af2088aa173&contentid=286 |contribution= |last= |first= |publisher=Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) |format=PDF |date=2010 |accessdate=2020-02-06 }} [https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/knmg-non-therapeutic-circumcision-of-male-minors-27-05-2010.pdf KNMG: Non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors.]
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