Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 229 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge Hawaii and the United States to adopt and ratify the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Specifically, this measure emphasizes our fundamental responsibility to protect the world's keiki, requests the State of Hawaii to adopt the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and urges the federal government to ratify the Convention, which was signed by the United States on February 16, 1995, but not approved or ratified.

One member of the Hawaii House of Representatives 18th District, submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure affirms the importance of caring for and nurturing all children in an atmosphere of aloha, in order to promote the ideals of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality, and solidarity.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 229, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 229, S.D. 1.