IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 726 
Calling on the President of the United States and the international community 
to take immediate steps to respond to and prevent acts of rape and 
sexual violence against women and girls in Darfur, Sudan, eastern Chad 
and the Central African Republic. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 10, 2007 
Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. MILLER of North Caro-
lina, Ms. NORTON, Mr. NADLER, Mr. FORTUN˜O, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. 
LEE, Mr. OLVER, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, 
Ms. BORDALLO, Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Mr. LANTOS, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. 
MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. WEXLER, Ms. WATSON, Ms. 
JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. WOOL-
SEY, Ms. GIFFORDS, Mr. HONDA, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. 
DELAHUNT, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. SHAYS, 
Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. COHEN, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. 
CROWLEY, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE 
JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. LYNCH, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. 
PAYNE, Mr. ALLEN, and Mr. CHANDLER) submitted the following resolu-
tion; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Calling on the President of the United States and the inter-
national community to take immediate steps to respond 
to and prevent acts of rape and sexual violence against 
women and girls in Darfur, Sudan, eastern Chad and 
the Central African Republic. 
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•HRES 726 IH 
Whereas, during war, rape and sexual violence are often used 
systematically as a weapon of intimidation, humiliation, 
terror and ethnic cleansing; 
Whereas it is estimated that between 250,000 and 500,000 
women and girls were raped during the genocide in 
Rwanda; 
Whereas, on September 2, 1998, the United National Inter-
national Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found Jean Paul 
Akayesu guilty of rape and held that rape and sexual as-
sault constitute crimes against humanity; 
Whereas, on October 31, 2000, the United Nations Security 
Council adopted Security Council Resolution 1325, call-
ing on all parties to an armed conflict to take, ‘‘special 
measures to protect women and girls from gender-based 
violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual 
abuse’’; 
Whereas the Rome Statute of the International Criminal 
Court, which entered into force on July 1, 2002, states 
that rape and ‘‘any other form of sexual violence of com-
parable gravity’’ may constitute both ‘‘crimes against hu-
manity’’ and ‘‘war crimes’’; 
Whereas since 2003, mass rape committed by members of the 
Sudanese armed forces and affiliated militias with the 
support of the Government of Sudan has been a central 
component of the Government of Sudan’s violence and 
ethnic cleansing in Darfur; 
Whereas women and girls leaving Internally Displaced Per-
sons camps in Darfur and refugee camps in eastern 
Chad, to seek firewood, water or outside sources of in-
come are often attacked and subjected to rape and sexual 
violence perpetrated by members of the Sudanese armed 
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forces and associated Janjaweed militia and other armed 
combatants; 
Whereas, on July 19, 2004, Amnesty International reported 
that it collected the names of 250 women who had been 
raped in Darfur and information on 250 additional rapes; 
Whereas, on January 25, 2005, the International Commission 
of Inquiry on Darfur, in a report to the United Nations 
Secretary General, reported numerous cases of mass rape 
throughout Darfur including an incident in which a large 
number of Janjaweed attacked a boarding school, and 
raped as many as 110 girls; 
Whereas, on March 8, 2005, Doctors Without Borders re-
ported that between October 2004 and the first half of 
February 2005, doctors from the organization treated al-
most 500 rape victims in numerous locations in South 
and West Darfur; 
Whereas, on March 9, 2007, members of the United Nations 
High-Level Mission on the situation of human rights in 
Darfur reported that ‘‘rape and sexual assualt have been 
widespread and systematic, terrorizing women and break-
ing down families and communities’’ and that ‘‘women 
are also attacked in and around refugee camps in eastern 
Chad’’; 
Whereas, on April 27, 2007, the International Criminal 
Court, acting under the authority provided in Security 
Council Resolution 1593, issued arrest warrants for Su-
dan’s Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ahmad Muhammad 
Harun and Janjaweed Colonel Ali Muhammad Al Abd-Al- 
Raham seeking their arrest for 51 counts including 6 
counts involving rape; 
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•HRES 726 IH 
Whereas under Sudanese law victims of rape have virtually 
no legal recourse and may in fact be charged with the 
crime of zina, or sexual intercourse outside of marriage, 
punishable by one hundred lashes if the victim is unmar-
ried and death by stoning if she is married; 
Whereas, on July 31, 2007, the United Nations Security 
Council adopted Security Council Resolution 1769 au-
thorizing the deployment of a United Nations-African 
Union peacekeeping force (UNAMID) to Darfur and ex-
pressing strong concern about ‘‘on-going attacks on the 
civilian population and humanitarian workers and contin-
ued and widespread sexual violence’’ while ‘‘emphasising 
the need to bring to justice the perpetrators of such 
crimes’’; and 
Whereas, on August 20, 2007, the United Nations High 
Commissioner for Human Rights, reported on attacks, 
abductions and systematic rapes of women by the Suda-
nese armed forces and associated militias occurring in 
Darfur, as well as the resulting pregnancies, ‘‘grave 
health risks,’’ and ‘‘psychological trauma’’ and declared 
that these acts may constitute war crimes: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls upon the President of the United 
States to develop within the United States Depart-
ment of State and the United States Agency for 
International Development a Women and Girls of 
Darfur Initiative to improve assistance to victims 
and potential victims of rape and sexual violence in 
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Darfur, Sudan, eastern Chad and the Central Afri-
can Republic by— 
(A) offering specialized grants to non-gov-
ernmental organizations, operating within IDP 
and refugee camps in Sudan, Chad and the 
Central African Republic that can provide all 
necessary comprehensive and quality health 
care services and medical supplies, psychological 
and social counseling, and legal advice to 
Darfuri victims of rape and sexual violence; 
(B) providing treatment for the prevention 
of sexually transmitted diseases, including 
antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV infections, 
and specialized care for rape victims already in-
fected with HIV/AIDS and other sexually trans-
mitted diseases; 
(C) meeting the psychological, social and 
educational needs of victimized women, girls, 
children born as a result of rape, their family 
and the community in order to limit the stig-
matization associated with rape; and 
(D) providing financial, technical and other 
forms of assistance to support women’s peace 
initiatives; 
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(2) calls upon the Secretary General of the 
United Nations, the permanent members of the 
United Nations Security Council, the African Union, 
the European Union, the Arab League and other na-
tions to immediately take steps to— 
(A) ensure that a fully funded and fully 
equipped UNAMID is deployed to Darfur, 
Sudan; 
(B) mandate that UNAMID employ all 
necessary measures to protect women and girls 
from acts of rape and sexual violence both out-
side and within Darfuri refugee and IDP 
camps; 
(C) provide sufficient resources and train-
ing to UNAMID troops and police to ensure a 
capability to properly respond to acts of rape 
and sexual violence; 
(D) provide for firewood patrols and other 
safeguarding measures to protect women and 
girls leaving refugee and IDP camps; and 
(E) include an adequate number of female 
troops and police in UNAMID to properly man-
age incidents of rape and sexual violence; 
(3) calls on the United Nations Security Coun-
cil to immediately— 
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(A) find the Government of Sudan in non-
compliance with Security Council Resolution 
1325; 
(B) call on the Government of Sudan to 
provide full legal protections to victims of rape 
and sexual violence and to bring to justice indi-
viduals responsible for such crimes; and 
(C) adopt under Chapter VII of the United 
Nations Charter a Security Council Resolution 
calling on the Government of Sudan to respect 
all related Security Council Resolutions, includ-
ing Security Council Resolution 1593, enforce 
the arrest warrants for Ahmad Muhammad 
Harun and Ali Muhammad Al Abd-Al-Raham, 
and further recognize the systematic rape of 
women and girls in Darfur as crimes against 
humanity and war crimes. 
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