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House Bill 9071




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HR 9071

        By Representative D. Prewitt






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution relating to the United Nations

  3         Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of

  4         Discrimination Against Women.

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  6         WHEREAS, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms

  7  of Discrimination Against women was adopted by the United

  8  Nations General Assembly on December 18, 1979, became an

  9  international treaty on September 3, 1981, and by 1996, 151

10  nations including all of the industrialized world, except the

11  United States, have agreed to be bound by the Convention's

12  provisions, and

13         WHEREAS, the United States supports and has a position

14  of leadership in the United Nations, and was an active

15  participant in and a signatory to the Convention, and

16         WHEREAS, the spirit of the Convention is rooted in the

17  goals of the United Nations, and the United States, to affirm

18  faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of

19  the human person, and in the equal rights of men and women,

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21         WHEREAS, the Convention provides a comprehensive

22  framework for challenging the various forces that have created

23  and sustained discrimination based on sex against half the

24  world's population, and the nations in support of the present

25  Convention have agreed to follow Convention prescriptions, and

26         WHEREAS although women have made major gains in the

27  struggle for equality in social, business, political, legal,

28  educational, and other fields in this century, there is much

29  yet to be accomplished and through its support, leadership,

30  and prestige, the United States can help create a world where

31  women are no longer discriminated against and have achieved

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HR 9071

    566-114A-97






  1  one of the most fundamental of human rights, equality, NOW,

  2  THEREFORE,

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  4  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  5  Florida:

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  7         That the House of Representatives of the State of

  8  Florida strongly supports the United Nations Convention on the

  9  Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and

10  hereby pledges its support in the future for the achievement

11  of the Convention's continuing goals.

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