(cache) J304-2013 - NY Senate Open Legislation - 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'

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.

J304-2013: 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'

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