“ Most constitutions guarantee fundamental rights and most countries in the region have ratified key international human rights treaties. A notable exception to the latter is the USA, one of only two countries in the world not to have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and one of only a handful of countries not to have ratified the UN Women’s Convention. The US government has also informed the UN of its intention not to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. ”