Latest News Children's Rights Publications International Legal Standards Links to Related Organizations 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. The Rest of Their Lives Life without Parole for Child Offenders in the United States Violence and Discrimination Against Gay Teens in U.S. Schools The Death Penalty and Juvenile Offenders Trial and Sentencing Practices Conditions of Confinement Children Detained by the INS Child Soldiers

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