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(3) urges the Administration to seriously consider 
multilateral intervention to stop genocide in Darfur 
should the United Nations Security Council fail to act; 
and 
(4) calls on the Administration to impose targeted 
sanctions, including visa bans and the freezing of assets 
of the Sudanese National Congress and affiliated busi-
nesses and individuals directly responsible for the atroc-
ities in Darfur; 
Whereas in the 109th Congress, the House of Representa-
tives passed H.R. 3127, the Darfur Peace and Account-
ability Act of 2006, on April 5, 2006, by a vote of 416– 
3, which— 
(1) appeals to the international community, includ-
ing the United Nations, the European Union, and the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), to imme-
diately mobilize sufficient political, military, and financial 
resources to support and expand the African Union Mis-
sion in Sudan (AMIS); and 
(2) blocks assets and restricts travel of any indi-
vidual the President determines is responsible for acts of 
genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity in the 
Darfur region of Sudan; 
Whereas on September 9, 2004, former Secretary of State 
Colin Powell stated before the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations of the Senate that genocide was being committed 
in the Darfur region of Sudan and that the Government 
of Sudan and the government-supported Janjaweed mili-
tias bear responsibility for the genocide; 
Whereas on September 21, 2004, President George W. Bush 
affirmed the Secretary of State’s finding in an address 
before the United Nations General Assembly, stating that 
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the world is witnessing terrible suffering and horrible 
crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan, crimes the Govern-
ment of the United States has concluded are genocide; 
Whereas, although the Government of the United States cur-
rently bans United States companies from conducting 
business operations in Sudan, millions of Americans are 
inadvertently supporting the Government of Sudan by in-
vesting in foreign companies that conduct business oper-
ations in Sudan that disproportionately benefit the Suda-
nese regime in Khartoum; 
Whereas the States of Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, and 
Maine have passed legislation mandating divestment of 
State funds from companies that conduct business oper-
ations in Sudan; 
Whereas the States of Connecticut, Ohio, and Vermont have 
passed nonbinding divestment legislation with respect to 
Sudan; 
Whereas Providence, Rhode Island, New Haven, Connecticut, 
and other cities have passed legislation mandating divest-
ment of city funds from companies that conduct business 
operations in Sudan; 
Whereas Amherst, Boston University, Brandeis, Brown, Co-
lumbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Middlebury, Oberlin, 
Princeton, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, 
Samford, Simmons, Smith, Stanford, Trinity, the Univer-
sity of California, the University of Colorado, the Univer-
sity of Maryland, the University of Pennsylvania, the 
University of Southern California, the University of 
Vermont, the University of Washington, Williams, and 
Yale have divested their funds from, or placed restric-
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tions on investment of their funds in, certain companies 
that conduct business operations in Sudan; 
Whereas divestment has proven effective in similar situations, 
as in 1986, when State pension funds and university en-
dowments were divested from companies that conducted 
business operations in South Africa, which was critical to 
ending apartheid in that country, and by 1994, when the 
first free elections in South Africa took place, a substan-
tial number of States, counties, cities, universities, and 
colleges in the United States had adopted partial or total 
divestment policies; and 
Whereas the business operations of companies in countries 
that perpetrate grave abuses of human rights, especially 
the uniquely monstrous crime of genocide, are of material 
financial concern to United States investors even when 
these operations represent a small fraction of a com-
pany’s total business: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls upon the Government of Sudan to end 
the violence it is perpetrating against the people of 
Darfur and enter into peace talks with those fac-
tions in Darfur that are non-signatories of the 
Darfur Peace Agreement; and 
(2) until such time as the Government of Sudan 
has taken the actions described in paragraph (1)— 
(A) encourages the Federal Government 
and State and municipal governments to divest 
from companies that do business with Sudan; 
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(B) encourages universities, companies, 
and other institutions in the United States to 
divest from companies that do business with 
Sudan; and 
(C) encourages all Americans to divest 
from companies that do business with Sudan. 
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