The following is being issued by Ariana-Leilani Children’s Foundation International:

I will never forget that the only reason I’m standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn’t popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world. Obama, speech, January 2008

Today is 20th Anniversary of The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, (UNCRC) , adopted by all the countries of the world (193) except the USA and Somalia. The CRC sets out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children adopted on 20 November 1989 (the 30th anniversary of its Declaration of the Rights of the Child), adopted by 193 countries, except the United States of America and Somalia. President Obama has described the failure of the USA to adopt human rights of children for child education thought the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as ‘embarrassing’ and has committed to change it. (Walden University Presidential Youth Debate, October 2008).

You can’t let your failures define you — you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. Obama, National Address to America’s Schoolchildren, September 2009
The United States has had many challenges of human rights and people have stood up for the equal human rights for all people. Our commitment to human rights continuously leads us to change. In the US people owned other people as property through slavery until we stood up and demanded a change.

Slavery ended in 1865 with the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that declared, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States.” Today, the federal anti-slavery statutes were updated in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, P.L. 106-386, which expanded the federal statutes’ coverage to cases in which victims are enslaved through psychological, as well as physical, coercion.

SOURCE Ariana-Leilani Children’s Foundation International

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