Word: anti-apartheid
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...Illinois that divestment has been used as a tool against governments committing human rights violations. The state—along with many other states and businesses—used divestment to convince the South African government to end its policy of Apartheid, and Collins said she used the anti-Apartheid divestment legislation as a model for her bill...
After the vote was taken at Somerville’s city hall, supporters of the divestment plan walked up to the aldermen and began singing an African anti-apartheid song while distributing pro-divestment pamphlets, according to White...
Bilheimer earned an Academy Award nomination for his previous film, Cry of Reason, which told the story of Beyers Naude, a South African anti-apartheid leader...
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...Harvard’s investments have crossed paths with a controversial African regime: In the 1970s and 1980s, the University seemed to do its best to maintain its state and private investments in the white-minority South African regime, still in the grip of apartheid. Even the election of anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Harvard’s Board of Overseers in 1989 did not convince the University to fully divest...