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SJM117.........................................................by SCHROEDER
CHILDREN - FOREIGN POLICY - Stating findings of the Legislature and urging
Congress to direct its own efforts and to recommend to the President of the
United States that foreign policy place the highest priority on the
protection of children by withholding foreign aid from countries which
continue to tolerate child slavery and child sexual exploitation and by
including a significant foreign aid program of providing school children,
whose families lack resources on their own, with a basic education.
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]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2006
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 117
BY SCHROEDER
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS
3 ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
4 IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
5 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
6 State of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-eighth
7 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
8 WHEREAS, children have been and continue to be the top priority of the
9 Idaho Legislature; and
10 WHEREAS, the Idaho Legislature places the protection, education and wel-
11 fare of our children as a top priority; and
12 WHEREAS, the Idaho Legislature recognizes that the future of our state,
13 the nation and the world as a whole depends upon nurturing and protecting
14 children so that they may grow and develop in a healthy environment; and
15 WHEREAS, millions of children in this world are sold into slavery and
16 exploited in child sex industries; and
17 WHEREAS, millions of children worldwide have no opportunity to attend
18 school or even attain basic literacy skills; and
19 WHEREAS, we find the enslavement and sexual exploitation of children dis-
20 tinctly contrary to our societal values and a violation of the most basic
21 human rights; and
22 WHEREAS, we also find it unacceptable that children are being denied basic
23 educational opportunities which provide the foundation to their and our
24 futures.
25 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses-
26 sion of the Fifty-eighth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Repre-
27 sentatives concurring therein, that the Congress of the United States is urged
28 to direct its own energies and to recommend to the President of the United
29 States that United States foreign policy place the highest priority on the
30 protection of children by withholding foreign aid assistance to those coun-
31 tries that continue to tolerate child slavery and the sexual exploitation of
32 their children.
33 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that United States foreign policy include a signif-
34 icant foreign aid program of providing schools for children whose families
35 lack the resources to secure a basic education for these children on their
36 own.
37 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
38 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
39 ident of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Con-
40 gress, and the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the
41 Congress of the United States.