International Treaties the US refuses to abide by


Haider Rizvi has a long list of the international treaties the US refuses to sign. Often it alone of the western and industrial nations is the holdout. The list includes: U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), UNESCO protection of cultural rights treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons, the Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines, a protocol to create a compliance regime for the Biological Weapons Convention, the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, the International Criminal Court treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Chemical Weapons Commission and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), and the U.N. Human Rights Commission probe into the alleged torture abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo and other detention centers. Of course, from a libertarian perspective there are no doubt objectionable clauses in many of these treaties (the claims to economic and cultural rights e.g.) but there are others (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons, the Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines, a protocol to create a compliance regime for the Biological Weapons Convention, the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, the International Criminal Court treaty, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) where the US objection seems to be that signing these treaties would hinder their imperial and military ambitions. By refusing to sign these treaties it is hard to see the US exercising any "moral leadership", not that much is left after the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Haider Rizvi has a long list of the international treaties the US refuses to sign. Often it alone of the western and industrial nations is the holdout. The list includes: U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), UNESCO protection of cultural rights treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons, the Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines, a protocol to create a compliance regime for the Biological Weapons Convention, the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, the International Criminal Court treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Chemical Weapons Commission and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), and the U.N. Human Rights Commission probe into the alleged torture abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo and other detention centers. Of course, from a libertarian perspective there are no doubt objectionable clauses in many of these treaties (the claims to economic and cultural rights e.g.) but there are others (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear weapons, the Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines, a protocol to create a compliance regime for the Biological Weapons Convention, the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, the International Criminal Court treaty, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) where the US objection seems to be that signing these treaties would hinder their imperial and military ambitions. By refusing to sign these treaties it is hard to see the US exercising any "moral leadership", not that much is left after the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Posted: Tue - December 27, 2005 at 12:15 PM        

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