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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 573 

Recognizing and commending the efforts of the United States public and 

advocacy groups to raise awareness about and help end the worsening 

humanitarian crisis and genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 25, 2007 

Mr. MORAN of Virginia (for himself, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. WOLF, Ms. 

LEE, and Mr. MCGOVERN) submitted the following resolution; which was 

referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing and commending the efforts of the United States 

public and advocacy groups to raise awareness about 

and help end the worsening humanitarian crisis and 

genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and for other purposes. 

Whereas the violence conducted by the Sudanese-backed 

Janjaweed militia in Darfur, Sudan, has left nearly 

2,500,000 people displaced from their homes and up to 

400,000 civilians dead; 

Whereas despite the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement 

on May 5, 2006, violence, death, and destruction in 

Darfur continue unabated, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians, humanitarian aid workers, United Nations officials, and African Union peacekeepers; 


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Whereas President Omar Hassan El-Bashir of Sudan continues to reject the deployment of a United Nations 

peacekeeping force to Darfur as stipulated in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1706 (2006) and has 

yet to unconditionally accept the terms of the African 

Union/United Nations hybrid peacekeeping force as generally agreed to on November 12, 2006; 

Whereas on July 22, 2004, Congress declared the atrocities 

unfolding in Darfur as genocide, and on September 9, 

2004, former Secretary of State Colin Powell declared 

that ‘‘genocide has been committed in Darfur and that 

the [G]overnment of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility’’; 

Whereas on April 18, 2007, President George W. Bush declared at the United States Holocaust Museum, where 

the Committee on Conscience has spent considerable efforts advocating to end the genocide in Darfur, that the 

United States has a moral obligation to help end the 

genocide in Darfur; 

Whereas hundreds of United States faith-based, human 

rights, humanitarian and youth-led advocacy organizations have established Darfur-related campaigns since the 

United States declaration of genocide in 2004; 

Whereas hundreds of State and local communities, schools, 

universities, and individual citizens have mobilized and 

organized fundraisers, campaigns, and initiatives to help 

end the genocide in Darfur; 

Whereas over 600 chapters of anti-genocide high school, college and university student organizations have been established since 2004 to help end the genocide in Darfur; 


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Whereas 54 American colleges and universities, 18 American 

States, 8 American cities, and 8 international and faithbased organizations have adopted divestment policies 

from Sudan thus far; 

Whereas on April 30, 2006, thousands of Americans gathered 

at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to urge the 

United States and the international community to help 

end the genocide in Darfur; 

Whereas similar public advocacy efforts in the United States 

to end mass human rights violations, racial discrimination, and violence in Africa have not been seen since the 

South African anti-apartheid movement; 

Whereas these aforementioned efforts have embraced the slogans ‘‘Never Again’’ and ‘‘Not On Our Watch’’, reminiscent of the failure of the international community to stop 

the Holocaust and the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda; 

and 

Whereas the United States has led the international community’s condemnation of the atrocities and violence in 

Darfur: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) recognizes and commends the efforts of the 

3 United States public and advocacy groups to raise 

4 awareness about and help end the worsening human5 itarian crisis and genocide in Darfur, Sudan; 

6 (2) supports the efforts of the various local 

7 schools, communities, and faith-based, human rights, 

8 humanitarian, and youth-led advocacy organizations 

9 that have dedicated their time and energy to help 


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1 end the genocide in Darfur and to promote peace, 

2 defend human rights, and improve the lives of those 

3 affected in Sudan and Chad; and 

4 (3) urges the United States to work with its 

5 partners in the international community to imple6 ment a more robust set of multilateral measures 

7 until President El-Bashir accepts a full-scale inter8 national peacekeeping force in Darfur. 

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