; 123 Stat. 2835). (10) Labor, human, and civil rights standards and protections require constant review and attention. (11) The Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations set forth a 15-year plan to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination. (12) The 43rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States adopted the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance on June 5, 2013. (13) The Global Slavery Index estimates that as many as 45,800,000 people around the world were in some form of modern slavery in 2016. (14) The United States supported the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations General Assembly and has ratified significant international human rights treaties, including the International Convention on the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination (November 20, 1994), the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (February 23, 1989), the International Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (November 20, 1994), and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (September 8, 1992). (15) The United States has ratified two of the eight fundamental conventions outlined by the International Labor Organization, including the Convention (ILO 105) concerning the abolition of forced labor (September 25, 1992) and the Convention (ILO 182) concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labor (December 2, 2000). (16) The United States has also ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (January 23, 2003) and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts (January 23, 2003). (17) The United States signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with