Word: apartheid
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...past, candidates have petitioned and run on platforms advocating particular issues. For example, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was elected at the height of a campaign to force the University to divest from holdings in Apartheid South Africa...
...TIME: Has any progress been made in stopping female circumcision? Dirie: It's a subject that is increasingly talked about, and more women are campaigning against it all the time. But there is a long way to go, and things move slowly. You have to change attitudes. But apartheid was ended in South Africa - it can happen...
...still can't teleport atoms. The U.S. Sue You in Court Lawyers have .led a suit in New York on behalf of four South Africans seeking $50 billion from U.S. and Swiss corporations for the "blood and misery" the companies allegedly caused by doing business with South Africa's apartheid regime. The plaintiffs said Citigroup, UBS and Credit Suisse profited from loans to Pretoria between 1985 and 1993 while a U.N. embargo on trade with South Africa was in force. VENEZUELA Coup Fear President Hugo Chávez warned against fresh attempts to topple his government as police arrested...
...banding together, congregations are trying to leverage the same consumer power they wielded in fighting for jobs and rights in the 1960s--but this time to gain better access to financial services and end what Jackson refers to, with typical flourish, as "economic apartheid." No boycotts are being threatened this time around. Instead, Jackson is uniting an underserved market with customer-hungry companies. New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.) chairman Dick Grasso agrees: "It's an absolutely perfect alignment...
...while most students haven’t stepped foot in The Crimson’s newsroom, they usually have well thought-out opinions about the problems Harvard faced during their time here. Older students care passionately about Harvard’s investments in apartheid South Africa; students today know about more current topics like the living wage movement and grade inflation...