Word: darfur
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...decision will prompt other cities to do the same.The national drive towards divestment was ignited in 2004 by Harvard’s campaign for University divestment from the oil stock PetroChina, a company involved with the Sudanese government’s ongoing genocide in the western region of Darfur. Since then, other universities and even states have pulled their funds from companies tied to Sudan. Although Cambridge city councillors said there are currently no formal plans for the city to follow Providence’s lead and begin a national trend of city divestment, at least one councillor expressed interest...
...arrested before the Turks decided their commitment to and pride in their greatest writer exceeded a commitment to killers who died almost a century ago. It could bring a cultural change. Also George Clooney, for the obvious reasons, and the students who led the divestment movement on campuses for Darfur...
...source of revenue for the Khartoum government and is used to fund the Janjaweed militias that are committing genocide in Darfur. This oil provides a clear and direct chain of causation between Harvard’s monetary interests and the most heinous of injustices and human rights abuses. Indeed, it would be difficult to justify the same link if the firm in question dealt with almost any other commodity besides...
...Many students on the Harvard campus, and many people elsewhere in the country, feel that the Bush administration has not done enough to address the genocide in Darfur. How do you think the U.S. should act there...
...process of recognizing the genocide there. The real human tragedy that’s going on, it is a complicated issue in that, while you’ve got the African Union troops there, I think looking at other international troop presence to try to end the violence in Darfur has to be a real, viable option to that, coupled with increased international pressure on the Sudanese government to stop the killing...