From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: USA #1 in NOT Ratifying Human Rights Treaties
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:59:52 GMT

The Decline of America: USA #1 in NOT Ratifying Human Rights Treaties


  Actions of various nations on the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant
   on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and the
   United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
    Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1991.
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            Key: S = Signed, R = Ratified, X = No Action:

COUNTRY       ICCPR(22)  ICESCR  U.N./TORTURE

Australia          R       R          R
Austria            R       R          R
Canada             R       R          R
Denmark            R       R          R
Finland            R       R          R
France             R       R          R
Germany            R       R          R
Italy              R       R          R
Netherlands        R       R          R
New Zealand        R       R          R
Norway             R       R          R
Spain              R       R          R
Sweden             R       R          R
United Kingdom     R       R          R
Belgium            R       R          S
Ireland            R       R          X
Japan              R       R          X
United States      S       S          R

[Having been active in Amnesty International before the ratification
of the treaty against Torture, it should be pointed out that getting
this signed by Bush took a tremendous amount of pressure over a
prolonged period of time. Could Bush's support for the funding of
government-run (according to Amnesty and others) "Death-Squads" in El
Salvador, Guatemala, etc, have had anything to do with it?]
[Send the 1-line email message consisting of GET AI_REPT ELSALV ACTIV-L
to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET for how our tax-dollars support
death-squads (i.e, DS's are gov't/army-run).]
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Source: Amnesty International Report 1991 (New York Amnesty International,
1991), pp. 240, 273-77.
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From:
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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
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    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   


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