STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1946_______

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.C.R. No. 15
                                     H.D. 1
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.C.R. No. 15 entitled:

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE UNITED STATES SENATE
     TO RATIFY THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION
     OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the U.S. Senate to
ratify the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Convention) and to support
the Convention's continuing goals.

     Testimony in support of this concurrent resolution was
received from the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women,
the Violence Prevention Consortium, the Hawaii Civil Rights
Commission, the Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal
Hotline, the Hawaii Women's Political Caucus, and members of the
public.

     Your Committee finds that the Convention provides a
comprehensive framework to protect women's rights within
political, cultural, economic, social, and family contexts, by
providing a uniform and universal definition of discrimination.

     Your Committee has amended this concurrent resolution by:

     (1)  Deleting the requirement that a copy of the resolution
          be transmitted to every member of the United States
          Senate; and

 
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     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
          purposes of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose
of H.C.R. No. 15, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption
in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 15, H.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



                                   ______________________________
                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair