STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3405

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 76
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 76 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE EFFORTS OF THE
     WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND WARIS DIRIE TO END THE HARMFUL
     TRADITION OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the measure is to support the efforts of the
World Health Organization and Waris Dirie to end the harmful
tradition of female genital mutilation.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Program
for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), and the Hawaii
Women's Coalition.

     Your Committee finds that female genital mutilation is a
horrid tradition practiced most extensively in Africa.  There is
no place in the modern world for this kind of human indignity
that has no justification whatsoever. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent
and purpose of S.C.R. No. 76, and recommends its adoption.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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