The United States remains one of only half a dozen U.N. member states that have yet to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The treaty was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, but no steps toward ratification have ever been taken. Meanwhile, the gap between the rich and the poor in this...
In lists of state parties to globally significant treaties, the United States is often notably absent. Ratification hesitancy is a chronic impairment to international U.S. credibility and influence.
ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.
I'm going through Battlestar Galactica for the third time. I thought it was a good time to do so because one of the major themes of the show was that the robots that the Capricans created went to war with the humans and almost but not quite wiped them out. Almost every episode was about the conflict between humans and AIs. It's a fantastic show, the acting and the writing as far beyond most TV series. I'll let you know if I figure anything out from watching the series again.
@davew Have you read After World by Debbie Urbanski? Not a war theme, but a love theme. Similar with AI and humans inter-relating. I interviewed Debbie for my video podcast Imaginize.World. You might find her work and thoughts relevant be it quite different from Battlestar Galactica. https://imaginize.world/debbie-urbanski-podcast/ #robots#AI#human
@marcel@miriamkl so then #AI is digitised exploitation in order to turn away from responsibility as a #human being and yet #profit and be praised as progressive because of the #technology? let's think about whether there was something like this besides #cryptocurrencies and older similar behaviour? 🤔 </rhetoric-question>
Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty? (www.washingtonpost.com)
The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
The United States' Failure to Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Must the Poor Be Always with Us. (commons.stmarytx.edu)
The United States remains one of only half a dozen U.N. member states that have yet to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The treaty was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, but no steps toward ratification have ever been taken. Meanwhile, the gap between the rich and the poor in this...
On International Treaties, the United States Refuses to Play Ball (www.cfr.org)
In lists of state parties to globally significant treaties, the United States is often notably absent. Ratification hesitancy is a chronic impairment to international U.S. credibility and influence.
ARTICLE 19 - Defending freedom of expression and information. (www.article19.org)
ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.