"The devil made me do it. Happy now?"
The Vatican’s record on child abuse was criticized today at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Highlighting the Vatican’s repeated and ongoing efforts to cover up evidence of child abuse by priests, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) accused the Vatican of violating its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Keith Porteous Wood, who presented IHEU’s statement to the Human Rights Council, said:
“Billions of dollars and euros have already been paid out in respect of thousands of victims in the USA and Ireland. News of further abuse has since appeared in Austria, the Netherlands and now Germany – and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
How much more evidence of children’s suffering is needed before the UN fulfills its responsibility to hold the Vatican to account?”
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"Okay, so when Israel listens to the UN, we'll listen!" -- His Holinessness
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