The Sovereign Voice Issue 5 | Page 12

When mothers leaving violent relationships report issues of domestic violence or sexual abuse, they are typically accused of alienating the father, typically resulting in the Judiciary ordering custody of the child subject of child abuse allegations (even when it can be proved) be given to the party who perpetrated the abuse.” Society talks about protecting children from harm, and we usually assume it's the parents abusing their children, but right within the halls of power, the supposed seat of justice, there is massive abuse and breach of rights occurring with little to any consequences for the governmental agents and officials involved. At the very core of this trial that never was is the inability of the U.N. to enforce its treaties, its conventions — and those that suffer for it are the children, not only at the hands of abusive parents, but on the orders of judges and other agents within a system that has failed spectacularly to answer to its own fictions. The U.N. itself has no real way of enforcing governments to comply and work on a method of cooperation between parties. Meanwhile more children suffer, legally. Historically, the barbarity that passes for civilisation dictated that to ensure some semblance of civility, human rights ought to be encapsulated into law by modern nations. Thus arose the United Nations International Declaration of Human Rights. You can read the history here. Today it is a well-known fact that the biggest abusers of this convention on Human Rights are the state parties themselves: Governments. Australia has never had a good human rights record. The rights of the child however are not well known, and are constantly violated. SOVEREIGN RIGHTS Our rights are given to us by our creator at birth. These are inalienable rights, which means they are not dependent upon the laws or customs or beliefs of any culture or government and they cannot be repealed or limited by human laws, unless there is corruption in the way of force and abuse within any of these systems (culture, government, religion). Humans standing in this sovereignty, this natural justice, need no law to tell them how to do right by others, nor do good people have to be told how to do right by children. “Do no harm” is the fundamental principal of natural justice, and in their way these U.N. Rights of the Child seem to be based upon our inalienable sovereign rights, yet the UN's own member states, 193 at last count, refuse to administer these rights, or are unable to, and there appears to be little accountability or consequence. It is a façade in which all of us, especially our children, are being abused and exploited by the very system and its fictions we have been taught to trust and obey. Tat this system can take away our inalienable rights, and that of our children, should be a warning bell to all. It has become a system that is increasingly unaccountable to its own fictions, and grows ever more corruptible with seeming impunity, while our children bear the brunt. Sadly, if our children were trade deals the problems would have been rectified by now. Sanctions would have been slapped on the Commonwealth of Australia for not integrating these rights into law and policy after twenty-five long years, as it obligated itself to do. Indeed, the Australian Family Law Act of 1975 has not been updated to include the UNCRC, and still considers children to be chattel. Isn't this a breach in itself? How many children have suffered and will continue to suffer because government officials have failed to take responsibility for making good on their word to honor the UNCRC? Crruption is endemic within the halls of power, and because of it the U.N. and its nation states are increasingly perceived as impotent. TheSovereignVoice.Org