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







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 
                               purposes.


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                    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

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                               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 thousands of civilians, humanitarian aid 
        workers, United Nations officials, and African Union peacekeepers;
Whereas President Omar Hassan El-Bashir of Sudan continues to reject the 
        deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force to Darfur as 
        stipulated in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1706 (2006) and 
        has yet to unconditionally accept the terms of the African Union/United 
        Nations hybrid peacekeeping force as generally 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 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 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 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 implement a more robust set of 
        multilateral measures until President El-Bashir accepts a full-
        scale international peacekeeping force in Darfur.
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