The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child was signed on November 20, 1999. It contains 42 articles relating to children’s survival, development, protection, and participation in society. One hundred and ninety-three countries have ratified it; only Somalia and the United States have not. In a colloquium on November 16, 2007, government officials from Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia and experts in the fields of health, education and juvenile justice gathered to discuss how provisions of the treaty can be used to affect change even in the absence of ratification. The Colloquium was sponsored by the Law Center's Juvenile Justice Clinic, the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development; Georgetown University's Department of Psychology, the Campaign for Youth Justice, the Campaign for U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform,

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Revised November 20, 2007 (MA)