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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 (2005), issued arrest warrants 
for Sudan’s Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ahmad Mu-
hammad Harun and Janjaweed Colonel Ali Muhammad 
Al Abd-Al-Raham seeking their arrest for 51 counts in-
cluding 6 counts involving rape; 
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 in Darfur and 
the resulting ‘‘grave health risks from the consequent 
physical injuries and psychological trauma’’, and declared 
that these acts may ‘‘constitute war crimes’’: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
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(1) calls upon the President of the United States to 
develop within the United States Department of State 
and the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment a Women and Girls of Darfur Initiative to improve 
assistance to victims and potential victims of rape and 
sexual violence in Darfur, Sudan, eastern Chad and the 
Central African Republic by— 
(A) offering specialized grants to non-govern-
mental organizations, operating within IDP and ref-
ugee camps in Sudan, Chad and the Central Afri-
can Republic that can provide all essential quality 
health care services and medical supplies, psycho-
logical 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 infected 
with HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted dis-
eases; 
(C) meeting the psychological, social and edu-
cational needs of victimized women, girls, children 
born as a result of rape, their family and the com-
munity in order to limit the stigmatization associ-
ated with rape; and
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(D) providing financial, technical and other 
forms of assistance to support women’s peace initia-
tives; 
(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 nations to imme-
diately take steps to— 
(A) ensure that a fully funded and fully 
equipped UNAMID is deployed to Darfur, Sudan; 
(B) mandate that UNAMID employ all nec-
essary measures to protect women and girls from 
acts of rape and sexual violence both outside and 
within Darfuri refugee and IDP camps; 
(C) provide sufficient resources and training to 
UNAMID troops and police to ensure a capability 
to properly respond to acts of rape and sexual vio-
lence; 
(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 manage 
incidents of rape and sexual violence; and
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(3) calls on the United Nations Security Council to 
immediately— 
(A) find the Government of Sudan in non-
compliance with Security Council Resolution 1325 
(2000); 
(B) call on the Government of Sudan to pro-
vide full legal protections to victims of rape and sex-
ual violence and to bring to justice individuals re-
sponsible for such crimes; and 
(C) adopt under Chapter VII of the United 
Nations Charter a Security Council Resolution call-
ing on the Government of Sudan to respect all re-
lated Security Council Resolutions, including Secu-
rity Council Resolution 1593 (2005), enforce the ar-
rest warrants for Ahmad Muhammad Harun and 
Ali Muhammad Al Abd-Al-Raham, and further rec-
ognize the systematic rape of women and girls in 
Darfur as crimes against humanity and war crimes. 
Attest: 
Clerk.