8. Comply With International Human Rights Treaties

WHEREAS the Bush Administration has repeatedly violated numerous treaties concerning the protection of human rights; and

WHEREAS the full protection of human rights is a fundamental aspect of the U.S. Constitution; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Maui Democratic Party calls upon the Hawai`i and National Democratic Parties to work for the full execution and implementation by the United States of the following human rights treaties:

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948
• Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 1954
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 1965
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966
• Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity of 1968.
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women of 1979
• Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. Geneva of 1980.
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 1984
• Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989
• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction of 1993
• Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997