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...step,” Stanford president John Hennessy said last week that “divestment is an act that should be made rarely and carefully.” But Hennessy said that all four companies had “at least partly enabled” the genocide in Darfur, which—by some estimates—has led to approximately 400,000 deaths since February...
...Stanford’s decision to divest generated significant media coverage in news outlets throughout California,” wrote Thomas-Jensen, who says that the primary aim of divestment movements is to keep international attention focused on the Darfur crisis...
...April 4, they made Harvard the first major institutional shareholder to alter its stock portfolio as a protest against the ongoing genocide in Darfur...
...only tangible things that have been done for Darfur writ large have happened at this University,” Power said in May, referring to divestment and Swipe-for-Darfur...
...Human rights activists hope that divestment campaigns can draw international attention towards Darfur, says Colin Thomas-Jensen of the International Crisis Group...