Sponsor: AVELLA / Co-sponsor(s): ADAMS, ADDABBO, BALL, BONACIC, BOYLE, BRESLIN, CARLUCCI, DEFRANCISCO, DIAZ, DILAN, ESPAILLAT, FARLEY, FELDER, FLANAGAN, FUSCHILLO, GIANARIS, GIPSON, GOLDEN, GRISANTI, HANNON, HASSELL-THOMPSON, HOYLMAN, KENNEDY, KLEIN, KRUEGER, LANZA, LARKIN, LATIMER, LAVALLE, LIBOUS, MARCELLINO, MARCHIONE, MARTINS, MAZIARZ, MONTGOMERY, NOZZOLIO, O'BRIEN, O'MARA, PARKER, PERALTA, PERKINS, RANZENHOFER, RIVERA, ROBACH, SAMPSON, SANDERS, SAVINO, SERRANO, SEWARD, SKELOS, SMITH, SQUADRON, STAVISKY, STEWART-COUSINS, TKACZYK, VALESKY, YOUNG / Committee: FINANCE
Law Section: Resolutions, Legislative
J304-2013 Actions
- Jan 29, 2013: ADOPTED
- Jan 29, 2013: REPORTED TO CALENDAR FOR CONSIDERATION
- Jan 25, 2013: REFERRED TO FINANCE
J304-2013 Text
LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION memorializing a Memorial Monument in the State of New York that pays tribute to those who have become known to the world as 'Comfort Women' WHEREAS, During the Japanese colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II, approximately 200,000 young women were coerced into the Comfort Women system of forced military prostitution; and WHEREAS, On June 16, 2012, the Comfort Women Memorial Monument was established in the Veterans Memorial at Eisenhower Park in Westbury, New York, to honor and commemorate the victims of the Comfort Women system; and
WHEREAS, The Memorial Monument, being the second memorial of its kind in the United States, symbolizes suffering endured by comfort women and serves as a reminder of the crime against humanity committed through the Comfort Women system; and WHEREAS, It is the custom of this Legislative Body to recognize historical monuments within the State of New York that are established to increase awareness of serious events that have taken place in histo ry; and WHEREAS, The United Nations reports that 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking at any one time, and 80 percent of them are being exploited as sexual slaves; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to memorialize a Memorial Monument in the State of New York that pays trib ute to those who have become known to the world as 'Comfort Women'; and be it further RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran smitted to the Korean American Public Affairs Committee, the Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Korean American Civic Empowerment.
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