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...acquiescence on sanctions. So what will Hu do? The conventional view is that China will never endorse serious economic measures against Iran because it needs oil and gas too badly. China has blocked Council action against Sudan because of its oil interests there, despite the genocide in Darfur. But I wonder. In this case, realists seek, above all, to prevent a military conflict in the wider Persian Gulf. That, given China's rapidly growing appetite for oil from the entire region - not just Iran - would be an economic nightmare for Beijing. China, a senior Western official believes, may well understand...
...Egyptians like to call the Sudanese refugees ?our brothers.? After all, the neighboring countries have had cultural and historic ties for thousands of years. However, of the multitude of refugees that have fled the turmoil of Sudan, particularly the genocidal killings in the Darfur region, only 30,000 have official refugee status in Egypt. The rest are in legal limbo, hoping to be allowed to migrate to Europe or America, but stymied by local authorities and, in their eyes, the United Nations commission on refugees. On Dec. 30, as 2005 ended, tragedy struck in a very unbrotherly...
...Sudanese refugees. The refugees chose the garden because it faces the regional office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The leaders of the sit-in had one important demand: to be processed for transfer to a Western country. They refused any half-measure, especially being returned to Darfur in southern Sudan; or to be resettled in Egypt, where they say they suffer from discrimination and random arrest. The trouble was, for months, the UNHCR had declined to talk directly to the protesters in the garden. The Sudanese minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Ahmed Korti, on a visit...
...reasons, the CCSR advised divestment because of PetroChina’s strong affiliation with its parent company, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The CNPC, which owns 90 percent of PetroChina, is a known partner of the Sudanese government, a relationship the CCSR condemns in light of the genocide in Darfur. The decision to divest came after months of vocal activism from student groups. According to the report, the CCSR—composed of Chairman Robert D. Reischauer ’63 and James R. Houghton ’58—agreed completely with the ASCR’s recommendations...
...work for companies that do good, a belief notoriously difficult to prove. (Citing internal surveys, Swartz says his employees identify strongly with the company's human-rights positions.) That reasoning also supports Timberland's current drive with actor Don Cheadle to raise awareness about the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan. Although it doesn't cost the company much, the campaign could be dismissed as the sort of self-indulgent do-gooding or splashy p.r. drive that irritates some CSR activists as much as it does the movement's detractors. But Swartz sees a direct link between his policies...