The United States and U.N. Security Resolution 1325

The House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight held a hearing last week to discuss House Resolution 146 which concerns the United States’ 'responsibility' regarding the United Nations Security Resolution 1325.

The introduction to the resolution states: “Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should take action to meet its obligations, and to ensure that all other member states of the United Nations meet their obligations, as agreed to in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325..." [snip]

The problem is that the United States has not agreed to the obligations of the UN Security Resolution 1325. That UN Resolution refers to numerous UN treaties. The United States has made no commitments to those treaties. For instance, we have withdrawn from the International Criminal Court to which it refers. [snip]

It is important to note exactly WHY the United States has chosen NOT to make these commitments.

The issue in regard to the U.N. treaties is a matter of national sovereignty, a matter of quotas and a matter of the specific provisions of the various treaties that would challenge the laws and culture of the United States...

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