Report Title:

Children and Youth; United Nations Center

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the Millenium Young People's Congress held in October 1999, demonstrated the value of a collective global vision by and for the children of the world and the need for a forum for international discussion of issues facing all children and youth; and

WHEREAS, children and youth are the key to world peace, sustainability, and productivity in the next millenium; and

WHEREAS, the health, welfare, and rights of children are the basic foundations that must be established for all children and youth; and

WHEREAS, Hawaii's location in the middle of the Pacific Rim provides an excellent and strategic location for the meeting place to follow up on the recommendations of the Millenium Young People's Congress, to discuss the health, welfare, and rights of children as basic foundations for all children and youth, and to research pertinent issues and alternatives concerning children and youth and propose viable models for societal application; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2001, the House of Representatives concurring, that the United Nations is respectfully requested to consider the establishment of a center for the health, welfare, and rights of children and youth in Hawaii and support for such a center is respectfully requested from the President of the United States and the United States Congress; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Legislature convene a task force to develop such a proposal for consideration by the United Nations; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Secretary General of the United Nations, the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the Hawaii State Senate, and the Speaker of the Hawaii State House of Representatives.