[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 145 (Friday, October 7, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 7, 1994]
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   THE JANE ADDAMS CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP AWARD

  Mr. SIMON. Mr. President, on November 2, 1994, the Jane Addams 
Conference will present its third International Women's Leadership 
Award. The award recipient for this year is Dr. Sadako Ogata of Japan, 
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Dr. Ogata is 
recognized for her exemplary work to world refugees and her strong 
commitment to the goals of the United Nations.
  The Jane Addams Conference was founded in 1984 to provide an 
international forum for women. The conference strives to educate women 
for empowerment and influence in international issue, to promote the 
involvement of women global affairs, and to encourage women to attain 
positions of leadership in the decisionmaking process.
  The Women's International Leadership Award was established in 1991, 
the 60th anniversary of Jane Addams receiving the Nobel Prize for 
Peace. Award winners are women with international influence who have 
dedicated their lives to helping others.
  The first award winner was Marjorie Benton, a prominent Illinois 
resident. Ms. Benton was appointed U.S. delegate to the United Nations 
five times and has served as the U.S. Representative to UNICEF. She 
travels the world to promote the work of Save the Children Foundation.
  The second recipient was Dr. Wangari Maathai of Kenya. Dr. Maathai, 
founder of the Green Belt Movement, is the one of the foremost 
environmentalists in Africa. The Green Belt Movement has organized 
50,000 women who have planted 12 million indigenous trees.
  As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Ogata has 
been a strong and undaunted champion for the world's 20 million 
refugees. Previously Dr. Ogata served as the Independent Expert of the 
United Nations Commission on Human rights on the Human Rights Situation 
in Myanmar. Among her other many accomplishments, Dr. Ogata has served 
as chairman of the executive board of UNICEF, Envoy Extraordinary and 
Minister Plenipotentiary at the permanent Mission of Japan to the 
United Nations, dean of the faculty of foreign studies at Sophia 
University in Tokyo and director of the Institute of International 
Relations at Sophia University.
  Dr. Ogata's commitment to world refugees and to the goals of 
the United Nations is exemplary. As we witness unrest, famine, and the 
disintegration of governments in many spots of the world, Dr. Ogata has 
been the shining light for refugees. Her tireless effort and her 
dedication to humanity has been an inspiration to all of us. I am 
pleased to join people from my State, across the Nation and around the 
world to extend my congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Ogata for her 
outstanding accomplishments.

                                H.R. 783

  Mr. SIMON. Mr. President, I would like to thank all of my colleagues 
who have made possible passage of H.R. 783, the immigration technical 
corrections bill, which contains many important provisions--both large 
and small--that will enable our immigration laws to work in a more 
sensible and efficient way.
  In particular, I would like to commend my colleague from California, 
Dianne Feinstein for her work on this bill and on immigration issues in 
general. She has long been in the forefront of efforts to strengthen 
and improve our immigration laws, and her efforts have already borne 
much fruit, in the form of increased resources for border enforcement, 
increased funding to the State of California for the costs of 
incarcerating illegal aliens, and more efficient procedures for dealing 
with deportable aliens.
  Much work yet needs to be done, but Senator Feinstein has my 
commitment that, as a member of the Immigration Subcommittee, I will 
work with her to explore further immigration reform legislation in the 
upcoming year. There is no question that our immigration laws need 
work, and I am confident that with Senator Feinstein's help, we can 
achieve our objective of passing good, smart, and fair immigration 
legislation in the upcoming session.

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