Word: darfur
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...role as the lead underwriter for the Shanghai listing of PetroChina, a subsidiary of the state-run China National Petroleum Company (CNPC). CNPC is a business partner of the Sudanese government.UBS has defended itself by arguing that PetroChina itself has no operations in Sudan.Still, members of the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) have been present at several UBS recruiting events this fall, including one in mid-November, handing out fliers detailing the alleged relationship between UBS and PetroChina. The first e-recruiting deadline for students applying for summer internships is today.“I think that students don?...
...While other candidates express moral outrage about the genocide in Darfur from the comfort of Washington, Bill Richardson actually traveled there to negotiate a ceasefire...
...they prepared an unauthorized airlift of 103 children to France, where they were to receive medical care and be placed in foster homes. Zoé's Ark officials contended that their furtive methods were necessary to get urgent aid to the children, who they claimed were orphans from nearby Darfur. But investigators soon found that most of the children were in stable condition - and that virtually all of them were Chadian nationals with at least one living parent. Amidst vivid public anger in Chad, French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew to N'Djamena in November to secure the release of seven...
...convicts are still railing at what they call a Chadian show-trial, and accuse Paris of failing to provide sufficient assistance and protection to what they say are blameless humanitarian officials. They contend the staffers were trapped in the shifting political sands surrounding the Darfur crisis - particularly the deployment of French-led peacekeeping forces to the Chad-Sudan border region, a move that Chadian authorities resent. Public opinion in Chad, on the other hand, has broadly accused the court of letting a cabal of child traffickers working under humanitarian cover off lightly. Some local commentators fear the transfer...
...French officials working for the return of the six to France - remain troubled by the lack of remorse or real avowal of wrongdoing by Zoé's Ark leaders, who have said their only error was in being misled by a local contact who swore the 103 children were Darfur orphans...