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...University of Chicago and Princeton have carved out two opposite approaches to managing their Sudanese-linked investments, creating possible models as Harvard begins to examine its own policy on investing in companies accused of financing the genocide in Darfur...
Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer, after receiving queries from Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), said last year that his school had only indirect holdings in Sudan-linked companies, though he has declined to say which companies the university had shares in and through which financial instruments it owned the shares...
...Evangelicals - especially the new generation of pastors and young people - are deserting the Religious Right in droves. The evangelical social agenda is now much broader and deeper, engaging issues like poverty and economic justice, global warming, HIV/AIDS, sex trafficking, genocide in Darfur and the ethics of the war in Iraq. Catholics are returning to their social teaching; mainline Protestants are asserting their faith more aggressively; a new generation of young black and Latino pastors are putting the focus on social justice; a Jewish renewal movement and more moderate Islam are also growing; and a whole new denomination has emerged, which...
...divestment from PetroChina in April 2005. Nearly a year later, Harvard issued another statement, announcing the decision to divest from Sinopec—also know as the China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.—given “deep concerns about the grievous crisis that persists in the Darfur region of Sudan...
CORRECTION In the Feb.13 news article "Holdings Still Tied to Sudan," Sabine J. Ronc '07 was incorrectly identified as the president of the Harvard Darfur Action Group. In fact, Sabine was one of the group's founding members and its first president, but she no longer occupies the post...