Bill Text: OH HR439 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: To condemn flagrant breaches of international human
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2014-06-03 - Adopted [HR439 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HR439-Enrolled.html
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Representatives Pelanda, Clyde
Cosponsors:
Representatives Adams, R., Amstutz, Antonio, Baker, Barborak, Barnes, Beck, Bishoff, Blair, Blessing, Boose, Boyce, Brenner, Brown, Buchy, Budish, Burkley, Butler, Carney, Celebrezze, Cera, Conditt, Curtin, Derickson, Dovilla, Driehaus, Duffey, Fedor, Foley, Gerberry, Gonzales, Green, Grossman, Hackett, Hagan, C., Hagan, R., Hall, Hayes, Heard, Henne, Hill, Hottinger, Huffman, Johnson, Kunze, Landis, Letson, Lundy, Lynch, Mallory, McClain, McGregor, Milkovich, Patterson, Perales, Pillich, Redfern, Reece, Rogers, Romanchuk, Rosenberger, Ruhl, Schuring, Sears, Sheehy, Slaby, Smith, Sprague, Stebelton, Stinziano, Sykes, Terhar, Wachtmann, Williams, Winburn, Young
| To condemn flagrant breaches of international human | 1 |
| rights laws, to express support for the provision | 2 |
| of United States assistance to Nigeria in safely | 3 |
| returning the more than 200 female students | 4 |
| abducted by the terrorist group Boko Haram, and to | 5 |
| urge the President of the United States to take | 6 |
| action to prevent the execution of Meriam Ibrahim | 7 |
| by the government of Sudan. | 8 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| WHEREAS, On April 14, 2014, more than 200 teenage female | 9 |
| students were forcefully abducted from their dormitories at the | 10 |
| Chibok Government Girls Secondary School in northeast Nigeria by | 11 |
| the terrorist group known as Boko Haram; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, Boko Haram claims full responsibility for this | 13 |
| heinous abduction and is threatening to sell the girls into sexual | 14 |
| slavery; and | 15 |
| WHEREAS, Boko Haram, which means "Western education is evil," | 16 |
| rejects Western culture, including the education of women and | 17 |
| girls. Boko Haram attempts to stifle the education of young | 18 |
| Nigerian women by inciting fear and violence; and | 19 |
| WHEREAS, It has been reported that an additional eleven girls | 20 |
| were kidnapped from their villages on May 12, 2014, in the | 21 |
| northeastern province of Borno by men armed with AK-47s; and | 22 |
| WHEREAS, The international community continues to express | 23 |
| outrage about the abduction of these young girls. President Obama | 24 |
| has therefore pledged military and law enforcement advisors to | 25 |
| Nigeria to support its efforts to find and free the girls, which | 26 |
| Nigeria has accepted; and | 27 |
| WHEREAS, Meriam Ibrahim, a citizen of Sudan, has been | 28 |
| sentenced by the government of Sudan to 100 lashes and death by | 29 |
| hanging for her religious beliefs. According to Sudan's Public | 30 |
| Order Criminal Code, Meriam is guilty of both adultery and | 31 |
| apostasy for marrying a Christian man and turning away from Islam; | 32 |
| and | 33 |
| WHEREAS, Meriam Ibrahim is married to Daniel Wani, a resident | 34 |
| of New Hampshire and a citizen of the United States. Meriam and | 35 |
| Daniel's son, a United States citizen, currently is imprisoned | 36 |
| with his mother; and | 37 |
| WHEREAS, The First Amendment of the United States | 38 |
| Constitution is a universal declaration of the American people | 39 |
| that freedom of religion is an unalienable right based solely on | 40 |
| the humanity of people; now therefore be it | 41 |
| RESOLVED, That we, the members of the House of | 42 |
| Representatives of the 130th General Assembly of the State of | 43 |
| Ohio, urge the President of the United States both to continue to | 44 |
| support the efforts of the Nigerian government to safely return | 45 |
| the abducted girls to their families and to act swiftly and | 46 |
| decisively to save Meriam Ibrahim from execution by the government | 47 |
| of Sudan; and be it further | 48 |
| RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives send | 49 |
| duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the President of | 50 |
| the United States, the members of the Ohio Congressional | 51 |
| delegation, and the news media of Ohio. | 52 |
