City Council
MEETING DATE: 9/11/2018
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
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FROM:
Charles McClendon, City Manager
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff Recommends the City Council approve a Resolution asking the Federal Government to live up to its agreement relative to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and reunite the remaining children who have been separated from their families at the border immediately.
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BACKGROUND:
In 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child became the first legally binding international convention to affirm human rights for all children. The Convention (CRC) represents a major milestone in the historic effort to achieve a world fit for children. As a binding treaty of international law, it codifies principles that Member States of the United Nations agreed to be universal - for all children, in all countries and cultures, at all times and without exception, simply through the fact of their being born into the human family. The United States signed the CRC in 1995.
Councilmember Kaplan requested a study session discussion to allow Councilmembers to consider developing a resolution documenting Cathedral City's support for the principals of the CRC, which was held on August 29, 2018.
Following is a simplified outline of the primary principals of the CRC obtained from Six Seconds http://www.6seconds.org.
Paraphrased in simple terms from the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Children have the right...
To a name & citizenship.
To know his or her parents.
To live with his or her parents unless it is not in his or her best interests.
To maintain contact with both parents if separated from one or both.
To be reunited with parents when possible.
To express an opinion, and to have that opinion taken into account.
To obtain appropriate information.
To meet with others and to join or set up associations.
To privacy.
To access information and material from a diversity of media sources.
To protec...
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