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. � .,.�:. COUNTY OF HAWAII . : _�. : ; STATE OF HAWAII RESOLUTION NO. ~74 23 A RESOLUTION URGING AWARENESS AND PLEDGING SUPPORT TO PROTECT NATIVE HAWAIIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS FROM ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION. WHEREAS,the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), in collaboration with the Hawai`i State Commission on the Status of Women,published the first of a two-part report in December 2022 titled Holoi A Nalo Wahine `Oiwi: Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls Task Force Report(MMNHWG Report); and WHEREAS,the MMNHWG Report states that the lack of data on the MMNHWG crisis gives the inaccurate appearance that this is not an issue that warrants further exploration and/or government resources, and thus it is often called"the invisible crisis"; and WHEREAS, the MMNHWG Report further states that"the invisible crisis" is due to: (1) the lack of recognition that Native Hawaiians are the indigenous people of Hawai`i and that they continue to experience systemic racism, (2) no concerted effort has been made to thoroughly study and understand the MMNHWG crisis to allow for the development of a comprehensive effort to support and protect Native Hawaiian women and girls from harm, and (3)the avenues by which Native Hawaiian women and girls go missing or are murdered is complex and intertwined with historical inequities that are not fully acknowledged; and WHEREAS, according to the 2020 Census Data, as compiled by the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum,Native Hawaiian women are more economically vulnerable than men, typically earning .57 cents to every dollar that white, non-Hispanic men earn; and WHEREAS, according to the MMNHWG Report: • Indigenous women and girls, including Native Hawaiians, are far more likely to be victims of violence than any other population in the United States; • In 2019, Hawaii had the eighth highest rate of missing persons per capita in the nation;