On the 30th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the United Nations (UN) created the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), an international human rights treaty that outlines the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. To date, it is the largest human rights treaty in history and has been ratified by 196 countries. The United States is the single member of the UN who has not ratified the CRC. For three distinguished children’s law advocates, the situation is dire. “Children,” they wrote, “are the invisible center of almost any debate.” Gun violence is the leading cause of death among youth, often occurring in schools. Children face the most devastating consequences from the climate crisis and are being warehoused at our borders. Public schools are as racially segregated, and according to some studies, more racially segregated than they were in the late 1960s. The demographic disparities of those funneled into sch