Don’t forget, our capitalists have been hard at work infecting the rest of the world with OUR greed disease. We’re the ones advocating other nations stop seeing their people as valued citizens and instead as capital livestock to be exploited mercilessly.

Child labor exists elsewhere out of desperate, struggling developing economies. We’re worse imho, because we’re doing it amid record profits, because its never enough, and our gluttonous pig oligarch owners ever demanding mooooaaaaaar, exploiting these kids whose schools they’ve already destroyed and stole the funding of through tax evasion and legislative tax policy capture.

We aren’t human to them, we’re capital livestock, which just makes our non-wealthy children capital veal.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/20/republican-child-labor-law-death

It has been claimed that American opposition to the convention stems primarily from political and religious conservatives.

Shocking.

The US did sign and help to draft it, but to ratify you need a 2/3rd majority in the Senate. And the conservatives in Congress want domestic control over all law making and enforcement.

This could be an international treaty against punching kittens, and they would still vote no.

Edit: It’s also worth adding that a) this (like US law) has carve outs that allow kids to work under certain conditions, and b) this isn’t a labor specific treaty. This covers corporal, punishment, criminal punishment, education, gender, and sexuality, healthcare and a number of other things that are hot button issues for American conservatives.

Also, after this was drafted, the US has ratified international agreements on child labor.

Saying this is just a labor thing isn’t the full story at all.