[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 82 (Friday, April 28, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 21031-21032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-10715]




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Part II





The President





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               Proclamation 6791--National Crime Victims' Rights Week, 
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The President  
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                Proclamation 6791 of April 26, 1995

                
National Crime Victims' Rights Week, 1995

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Every year, more than 36 million people in America 
                become the victims of crime. Offenders prey on our 
                daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, parents, 
                grandparents, and friends. Violent crime is creating 
                fear and insecurity in communities across our Nation.

                To ensure justice and promote healing, a grassroots 
                crime victims' movement has worked to enact numerous 
                initiatives in State legislatures across the country--
                laws that now provide crucial rights for crime victims 
                and their families. As we mark National Crime Victims' 
                Rights Week this year, Americans join in remembering 
                the fallen, in celebrating criminal justice reforms, 
                and in envisioning a future free from violence.

                The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 
                1994, which I signed into law this past September, 
                ensures that our criminal justice system recognizes the 
                victims. Its provisions include allocution rights for 
                victims of violent crime and sexual abuse, truth in 
                sentencing guidelines to ensure that violent offenders 
                serve longer sentences, and sex offender registries 
                designed to monitor offenders more effectively. This 
                Act will help put 100,000 more police officers on the 
                streets of our communities. And the landmark Violence 
                Against Women Act is the first comprehensive Federal 
                effort to address violence against women.

                But no government can be truly effective without the 
                active involvement of its citizens. Victim advocacy--
                the work of the more than 8,000 organizations and the 
                countless individuals we honor this week--can be a 
                lifeline to emotional survival. When random bullets 
                wound a child, when a battered woman needs shelter in 
                the night, when a rape survivor seeks help--victim 
                advocates are there to comfort and support. Many of our 
                Nation's crime victims and advocates work tirelessly in 
                schools, neighborhoods, and youth custody facilities. 
                They give faces and names to the statistics of crime, 
                opening young peoples' eyes to the reality of violence 
                and helping to plant seeds of responsibility that can 
                last a lifetime.

                We nonetheless recognize that much remains to be done. 
                But with continued partnerships between every level of 
                government, criminal justice and victim advocacy 
                organizations, and crime survivors and their families, 
                America can begin to replace the nightmare of crime 
                with a bright new day of hope.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim April 23 through April 29, 
                1995, as ``National Crime Victims' Rights Week.'' I 
                urge all Americans to pause and remember the victims of 
                crime and to join in honoring those who serve crime 
                victims and their families by working to reduce 
                violence, to assist those harmed by crime, and to make 
                our homes and communities safer places in which to 
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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and nineteenth.

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