III 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 467
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 7, 2004
Received and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Declaring genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
Whereas Article 1 of the Convention on the Prevention and 
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (signed at Paris on 
December 9, 1948) states that ‘‘the Contracting Parties 
confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of 
peace or in time of war, is a crime under international 
law which they undertake to prevent and to punish’’;
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress—
(1) declares that the atrocities unfolding in 
Darfur, Sudan, are genocide; 
(2) reminds the Contracting Parties to the Con-
vention on the Prevention and Punishment of the 
Crime of Genocide (signed at Paris on December 9, 
1948), particularly the Government of Sudan, of 
their legal obligations under the Convention; 
(3) declares that the Government of Sudan, as 
a Contracting Party, has violated the Convention on 
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of 
Genocide; 
(4) deplores the failure of the United Nations 
Human Rights Commission to take appropriate ac-
tion with respect to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, par-
ticularly the failure by the Commission to support 
United States-sponsored efforts to strongly condemn 
gross human rights violations committed in Darfur, 
and calls upon the United Nations and the United 
Nations Secretary General to assert leadership by 
calling the atrocities being committed in Darfur by 
their rightful name: ‘‘genocide’’; 
(5) calls on the member states of the United 
Nations, particularly member states from the Afri-
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can Union, the Arab League, and the Organization 
of the Islamic Conference, to undertake measures to 
prevent the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, from esca-
lating further, including the imposition of targeted 
sanctions against those responsible for the atrocities; 
(6) urges the Administration to call the atroc-
ities being committed in Darfur, Sudan, by their 
rightful name: ‘‘genocide’’; 
(7) commends the Administration’s leadership 
in seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict in 
Darfur, Sudan, and in addressing the ensuing hu-
manitarian crisis, including the visit of Secretary of 
State Colin Powell to Darfur in June 2004 to en-
gage directly in efforts to end the genocide, and the 
provision of nearly $140,000,000 to date in bilateral 
humanitarian assistance through the United States 
Agency for International Development; 
(8) commends the President for appointing 
former Senator John Danforth as Envoy for Peace 
in Sudan on September 6, 2001, and further com-
mends the appointment of Senator Danforth as 
United States Ambassador to the United Nations; 
(9) calls on the Administration to continue to 
lead an international effort to stop genocide in 
Darfur, Sudan;
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(10) urges the Administration to seriously con-
sider multilateral or even unilateral intervention to 
stop genocide in Darfur, Sudan, should the United 
Nations Security Council fail to act; 
(11) calls on the Administration to impose tar-
geted sanctions, including visa bans and the freezing 
of assets of the Sudanese National Congress and af-
filiated business and individuals directly responsible 
for the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan; and 
(12) calls on the United States Agency for 
International Development to establish a Darfur Re-
settlement, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Fund 
so that those individuals driven off their land may 
return and begin to rebuild their communities.
Passed the House of Representatives July 22, 2004. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.