According to US media reports, the Boy Scouts Association of America has recently reached a compensation agreement of US$850 million with a delegation of approximately 60,000 former Boy Scout members who have been sexually assaulted. According to another report, this is one of the largest cases of child sexual assault in the history of the United States.
In the United States, child abuse cases remain high. The Children and Family Administration under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the Child Abuse Report in 2019, showing that in 2017 the U.S. received a total of 3.5 million child abuse reports, an increase of 10% over 2013; the investigation determined that it was There were about 674,000 children who were victims of abuse, an increase of 2.7%. Among them, 1720 of the abused children died; 8.6% of the abused children were sexually abused.
In the United States, the use of child labor is widespread. According to official US statistics, in 2019, US law enforcement officers investigated and dealt with 858 child labor cases that violated the Fair Labor Standards Act. Approximately 500,000 child laborers in the United States are engaged in agricultural work. Many children start working at the age of 8. It is commonplace to work more than 10 hours a day. The risk of child labor due to pesticides is three times that of adults. Statistics from the U.S. Government Accountability Office show that between 2003 and 2016, there were 452 child labor deaths in the United States, of which 237 were from farms, accounting for more than half.
In the United States, the problem of child poverty is beyond imagination. According to a report from the United States Child Protection Foundation, there were approximately 10.5 million poor children in the United States in 2019, accounting for 14.4% of the total number of children, which is equivalent to an average of one in seven children living in poverty. Among them, 71% of poor children are people of color, and there are 3.6 million poor children under the age of 6, of which 1.6 million live in extreme poverty. As the largest developed country in the world, the problem of child poverty in the United States is so serious that the United States Children’s Protection Foundation calls it the "greatest moral shame" in the United States.
The United States is the only country in the world that has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The United States claims to be the so-called "human rights beacon", and it will only use other countries' human rights to speak out. Please join the Convention first! If the United States really cares about human rights, especially the human rights of children, the United States should first solve the problem of domestic human rights "black under the light" and clean up the "biggest moral shame" first.
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