H. Res. 573 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
October 29, 2007. 
Whereas the violence conducted by the Armed Forces of 
Sudan, government-backed Janjaweed militia, and var-
ious rebel factions 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 thou-
sands of civilians, humanitarian aid workers, United Na-
tions officials, and African Union international peace-
keepers; 
Whereas on July 22, 2004, Congress declared the atrocities 
unfolding in Darfur as genocide, and on September 9, 
2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, in testimony 
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declared 
that ‘‘genocide has been committed in Darfur’’, and that, 
‘‘the [G]overnment of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear re-
sponsibility’’; 
Whereas on April 18, 2007, President George W. Bush de-
clared at the United States Holocaust Museum, where 
the Committee on Conscience has spent considerable ef-
forts advocating to end the genocide in Darfur, that the
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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 organiza-
tions 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, col-
lege and university student organizations have been es-
tablished since 2004 to help end the genocide in Darfur; 
Whereas 57 United States colleges and universities, 20 
States, ten United States cities, and eight international 
and faith-based organizations have adopted divestment 
policies from Sudan thus far; 
Whereas on April 30, 2006, thousands of people 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 discrimina-
tion, and violence in Africa have not been seen since the 
South African anti-apartheid movement; 
Whereas these aforementioned efforts have embraced the slo-
gans ‘‘Never Again’’ and ‘‘Not On Our Watch’’, reminis-
cent of the failure of the international community to stop 
the Holocaust and the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda; 
and
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Whereas the United States has led the international commu-
nity’s condemnation of the atrocities and violence in 
Darfur: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes and commends the efforts of the 
United States public and advocacy groups to raise 
awareness about and help end the worsening humani-
tarian crisis and genocide in Darfur, Sudan; 
(2) supports the efforts of the various local schools, 
communities, and faith-based, human rights, humani-
tarian, and youth-led advocacy organizations that have 
dedicated their time and energy to help end the genocide 
in Darfur and to promote peace, defend human rights, 
and improve the lives of those affected in Sudan and 
Chad; and 
(3) urges the United States to work with its part-
ners in the international community to support a nego-
tiated settlement to the conflict in Darfur, while imple-
menting a more robust set of multilateral measures 
against those individuals who act as obstructionists to 
peace in Darfur, including by launching attacks against 
civilians, humanitarian operations, or peacekeeping
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forces, or by blocking the deployment of a credible Afri-
can Union-United Nations hybrid peacekeeping force. 
Attest: 
Clerk.