Human rights body calls on US school to ban electric shocks on children

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2. Trump Adm will ignore this...............

IMHO



..........The commission wrote last month wrote to US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and US ambassador to the OAS Carlos Trujillo asking for their observations on the electric shock therapy. So far the IACHR has received no response.

In its resolution the IACHR gives the Trump administration 15 days to impose a ban on the practice in line with the commission’s findings. Though the call for a prohibition is non-binding, for a member state of the OAS to willfully ignore the call of its human rights arm would open the US to international condemnation.

The US government has full power to order a ban should it choose to. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates all medical and therapeutic devices, could pull the GED electric shock machine by ruling it illegal.

In 2016 the FDA did indeed say it was minded to prohibit the device, but it has yet to turn the proposal into action.