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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), a seemingly harmless treaty with dangerous implications for American families, is approaching possible ratification by the United States. if this treaty is made binding upon our country, the government would have the power to intervene in any child's life to advance its definition of "the best interests of the child." The scenarios that could occur—and are occurring—as a result of this dangerous notion are both manifold and frightening. Under the UNCRC, instead of following due process, government agencies would have the power to override your parental choices at their whim...

Rights Group Says Zimbabwe Starves Dissidents By MICHAEL WINES Published: October 25, 2003 JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 24 — On the heels of new reports of growing desperation in Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch charged Friday that the nation's rulers were using its limited food supplies as a weapon of political control. In a lengthy report on conditions inside Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch said government relief programs regularly withheld food from critics of the ruling political party, ZANU-PF, and often from entire classes of people, like city dwellers, many of whom are seen as opponents of ZANU-PF. But the watchdog group also offered...