Threat seen from U.S. judges who bow to child-rights treaty.
A U.N. treaty conferring rights to children could make homeschooling illegal in the U.S. even though the Senate has not ratified it, a homeschooling association warns. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child could be binding on U.S. citizens because of activist judges, reports The convention places severe limitations on a parent's right to direct and train their children.
The Home School Legal Defense Association, or HSLDA has published a report in 1993 warning on how the convention intended to make homeschooling illegal and gain control; of our children and their education. The report states:
Article 13: Under this provision, parents could be subject to prosecution for any attempt to prevent their children from interacting with material they deemed unacceptable. Children are vested with a "freedom of expression" right which is virtually absolute. No allowance is made for parental guidance. Section 1 declares a child's right to "seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art or through any other media of the child's choice."
Article 14: Children are guaranteed "freedom of thought, conscience and religion." Children have a legal right to object to all religious training. Alternatively, children may assert their right against parental objection to participate in occult, Muslim or Buddhist worship services.
Article 15: This article declares "the right of the child to l freedom of association." If this measure were to be taken seriously, parents could be prevented from forbidding their child to associate with people deemed to be objectionable companions. Under Article 15, children could claim a "fundamental" right to join gangs, cults, and racist organizations over parental objection. Parental rights and responsibilities are unmentioned.
Already a world precedent was established when the United Kingdom was deemed out of compliance with the convention "because it allowed parents to remove their children from public school sex-education classes without consulting the child."
It was clearly illustrated in World War II, when Hitler was reported saying, once he has control of the children, then he has control over the people. The rest is now history.
We must assert our freedoms and pressure Congress to protect our freedom of education with strong legislation and Get Us Out Of the United Nations, NOW!
Source: www.wnd.com
Posted by Walt as Education, Freedom & Human Rights at 11:24 PM EDT
was founded. The alliance, based on shared principles, grew out of a military alliance with the aim to combat aggressors and defend human rights. At that moment, Democratic States had a considerable majority.