Word: darfur
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Arab militias in Darfur, with support from the Sudanese government, have uprooted and exterminated hundreds of thousands of black, Muslim villagers in a campaign that the U.S. State Department and Congress have both termed genocide. More than 400,000 people have died in the four-year-old conflict, and more than two million have lost their homes, according to U.N. officials’ estimates...
...founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group, Rebecca Hamilton, said yesterday that she is “hopeful that the Corporation will move quickly to ensure the University’s good reputation on this issue is not called into question by indirect investments in companies it has already decided to divest from directly...
...Crimson, Interim University President Bok said he did not know about the University’s indirect holdings in PetroChina and Sinopec, and that the investments must relate to something that happened prior to his interim presidency. As long as the current ad hoc approach to Darfur-related divestment remains in place, we can expect to see the incoming Harvard president make similarly blinkered statements, which will ultimately undermine Harvard’s good standing on this issue. By contrast, the implementation of a targeted divestment model as a matter of policy provides a way out of this bind...
...would be a win for the University, which could enjoy its reputation—unchallenged—as having come down on the right side of history regarding Darfur. It would be a win for students, who would not have to expend energy re-fighting the same fight each time inadvertent holdings are discovered. And most importantly, it would be a win for Sudanese civilians, who could be assured that an institution with the moral standing of Harvard would not, inadvertently or otherwise, support the companies most responsible for funding the genocidal campaign in Darfur...
...Rebecca J. Hamilton is a student at the Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. She has worked in Sudan and co-founded the Harvard Darfur Action Group...