The Leader of the Free World
Refuses to Honor Many World Treaties
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| Well, OK, we did sign this one. |
The mass murderer Putin clearly needs to be convicted of war crimes. However, the USA "rejects" and "isn't a party to" the International Criminal Court where such a conviction would happen. The problem is that any prosecution of U.S. crimes would “unacceptably threaten American sovereignty and U.S. national security interests.”
There you go. At least there you go until a criminal like Putin needs prosecuting.
Here's a list of the international treaties we have stiff-armed:
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| 1930 | Forced Labour Convention | International Labour Organization | signed, not ratified |
| 1948 | Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention | International Labour Organization | not signed |
| 1949 | Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 | International Labour Organization | not signed |
| 1950 | Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others | UN Secretary-General | not signed |
| 1951 | Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees | UN Secretary-General | only 1967 protocol |
| 1951 | Equal Remuneration Convention | International Labour Organization | signed, not ratified |
| 1954 | Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons | UN Secretary-General | not signed |
| 1958 | Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention | International Labour Organization | signed, not ratified |
| 1960 | Convention against Discrimination in Education | UNESCO | signed, not ratified |
| 1961 | Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness | UN Secretary-General | not signed |
| 1962 | Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1964 | Employment Policy Convention, 1964 | International Labour Organization | signed, not ratified |
| 1966 | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1966 | First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | UN Secretary-General | not signed |
| 1969 | Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1969 | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1972 | Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty | Bilateral US–Soviet treaty | ratified 1972, withdrew 2002 |
| 1973 | Minimum Age Convention, 1973 | International Labour Organization | signed, not ratified |
| 1977 | American Convention on Human Rights | Organization of American States | signed, not ratified |
| 1977 | Protocol I (Geneva Conventions amendment) | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1977 | Protocol II (Geneva Conventions amendment) | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1979 | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | UN Secretary-General | signed 1980, not ratified[3] |
| 1979 | Salt II | Bilateral US–Soviet treaty | signed 1979, withdrew 1980 |
| 1979 | Moon Treaty | UN Secretary-General | not signed |
| 1981 | Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 | International Labour Organization | signed, not ratified |
| 1982 | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) | UN Secretary-General | not signed |
| 1989 | Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | UN Secretary-General | not signed |
| 1989 | Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) | UN Secretary-General | signed 1995, not ratified[3] |
| 1989 | Basel Convention | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1990 | International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families | UN Secretary-General | not signed |
| 1992 | Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1994 | Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1996 | Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1997 | Kyoto Protocol | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 1997 | Ottawa Treaty (Mine Ban Treaty) | UN Secretary-General | not signed[3] |
| 1998 | Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | UN Secretary-General | signed 1998, withdrew 2002[4] |
| 1999 | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (OP-CEDAW) | UN Secretary-General | not signed |
| 1999 | Civil Law Convention on Corruption | Council of Europe | not signed[5] |
| 2002 | Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) | UN Secretary-General | not signed[3][6] |
| 2007 | International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) | UN Secretary-General | not signed[3] |
| 2007 | Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | UN Secretary-General | signed 2009, not ratified[7] |
| 2008 | Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) | UN Secretary-General | not signed[3] |
| 2011 | Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) | Government of Japan | signed, not ratified |
| 2013 | Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) | UN Secretary-General | signed, not ratified |
| 2016 | Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) | Government of New Zealand | signed 2016, withdrew 2017 |
I reckon our sovereignty makes it OK to torture (2002)... Or at least not get prosecuted if we do. Etc., etc., etc.
Source: Wikipedia
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