On UN children's summit

After much controversial debate and dubious compromise, the UN children's summit could be considered a farce.

While representatives debated for three days over the formulation of issues of sex education and family planning -- over which the conference nearly collapsed -- 90,000 children under the age of five died of AIDS, starvation or violence, based on statistics by UNICEF.

And then the United States was granted an exclusion that is an outrageous disgrace ... allowing U.S. states to continue to kill children under the age of 18 by the death penalty, without having to worry about a violating a UN document.

-- Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt