[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 573 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                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 various 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 thousands of civilians, humanitarian aid 
        workers, United Nations officials, and African Union international 
        peacekeepers;
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 responsibility'';
Whereas on April 18, 2007, President George W. Bush declared at the United 
        States Holocaust Museum, where the Committee on Conscience has spent 
        considerable efforts 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 organizations 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, college and university 
        student organizations have been established 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 discrimination, and violence in Africa have 
        not been seen since the South African anti-apartheid movement;
Whereas these aforementioned efforts have embraced the slogans ``Never Again'' 
        and ``Not On Our Watch'', reminiscent 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 community'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 
        humanitarian 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 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 support a negotiated settlement to the 
        conflict in Darfur, while implementing 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 forces, or by blocking the 
        deployment of a credible African Union-United Nations hybrid 
        peacekeeping force.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.