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...Nobel Peace Prize, and eight other environmental activists. Hoping to silence one of its most eloquent critic, the Nigerian military junta executed Saro-Wiwa after a widely-condemned show trial for his alleged role in the deaths of four tribal chiefs killed during a riot. Harvard should divest itself of interests in companies that continue to do business in Nigeria despite its oppressive regime...
Some council members said they were concerned that to divest from Nigeria would send the wrong message to Shell...
Some speakers at the event also called on Harvard to divest its stock in the Shell oil company, which Saro-Wiwa had criticized for exploiting the Ogoni people and polluting their land with oil spills...
...decide that the conflict of interest is so severe that the investigator would have to divest the financial interest, or we may decide that the conflict of interest can be adequately dealt with simply by public disclosure," Halperin says...
Simon C. Billenness, senior analyst for the Boston-based Franklin Research & Development Corporation, followed Zun's speech with a summary of his efforts to urge state legislators to divest from Burma...