CashewNut 🏴@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoTIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Childen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1464arrow-down119
arrow-up1445arrow-down1external-linkTIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Childen.wikipedia.orgCashewNut 🏴@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareGhostalmedia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-25 months agoThis perception arises from the fact that people think signing and ratifying are the same thing. They are not. A treaty needs to be ratified to be legally binding, and ratification takes 2/3rd of the senate to OK it. The executive branch signs international shit all the time, but they can’t get it through Congress. Which is why recent treaties lack teeth.
This perception arises from the fact that people think signing and ratifying are the same thing. They are not.
A treaty needs to be ratified to be legally binding, and ratification takes 2/3rd of the senate to OK it.
The executive branch signs international shit all the time, but they can’t get it through Congress. Which is why recent treaties lack teeth.