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Four White House searches, four different search strings:
1. child rights  2. "child rights"  3. "children's rights"  4. "childrens rights"
May 01, 2001 
White House Search 1, child rights
Senator Jesse Helms, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where the ratification of the CRC (Convention on the Rights of the Child) takes place, indicates that the CRC's ratification is not taking into consideration.
 
White House Search 2
Jesse Helms said:
-The American people do not need yet another body determining what is in the best interest of US families…the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, is incompatible with God-given rights and responsibilities of parents to raise their children.
 
White House Search 3, children's rights
The senator continued:
-The United States Senate must not dignify this strange document by allowing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to be considered.
 
President George W Bush, Vice President Cheney and the White House
  Only two more... to go

..to review their national legislation,
to make sure it is in line with the
provisions of the treaty..
 
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Signed by the U.S. in 1995, but still not ratified.
 
White House Search 4, childrens rights
 
Mr President George W. Bush:
 
 
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