IV 
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 pur-
poses. 
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 thou-
sands of civilians, humanitarian aid workers, United Na-
tions officials, and African Union peacekeepers; 
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Whereas President Omar Hassan El-Bashir of Sudan con-
tinues to reject the deployment of a United Nations 
peacekeeping force to Darfur as stipulated in United Na-
tions Security Council Resolution 1706 (2006) and has 
yet to unconditionally accept the terms of the African 
Union/United Nations hybrid peacekeeping force as gen-
erally 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 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 
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; 
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Whereas 54 American colleges and universities, 18 American 
States, 8 American cities, and 8 international and faith- 
based 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 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 
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 human-
itarian crisis and genocide in Darfur, Sudan; 
(2) supports the efforts of the various local 
schools, communities, and faith-based, human rights, 
humanitarian, and youth-led advocacy organizations 
that have dedicated their time and energy to help 
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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 
partners in the international community to imple-
ment a more robust set of multilateral measures 
until President El-Bashir accepts a full-scale inter-
national peacekeeping force in Darfur. 
Æ 
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