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...Sinopec shares would have been approximately $7.8 million as of the close of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment for this article in an e-mail, citing University policy to not comment on specific investments. The University announced its decision to divest from PetroChina in April of last year due to “deep concerns” about the role of PetroChina’s parent company, the China National Petroleum Corporation, in supporting the Sudanese regime. A report by the Harvard Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) stated that...
Amherst College will divest from firms that conduct business with the Sudanese government, which has been accused of facilitating the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the Massachusetts liberal arts school announced yesterday...
...future investments. Amherst does not hold any shares directly. Instead, the school said a “small number” of outside fund managers who invest on Amherst’s behalf do hold shares of some of the companies, and will be instructed to divest...
...June 2005, Stanford became the second major school to divest from firms linked to Sudan, announcing that it would sell direct stakes in PetroChina, Sinopec, Tatneft, and power and automation equipment company ABB Ltd. Elsewhere, at Yale, an advisory committee is preparing a report on whether the school should divest from companies tied to Sudan...
...born. Then, as a mother of three, she served on the boards of several charitable organizations in Seattle. She was the first woman to chair the board of United Way International. After she was appointed to the University of Washington board of regents, she led a successful movement to divest the school's investments in South Africa. Bill Gates Sr., a prosperous lawyer, was also active in United Way and the University of Washington...