Word: divestments
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...conflict in Sudan. Calling their campaign Senior Gift Plus, they asked classmates to withhold donations to the annual fundraising drive until Harvard sold its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with ties to the Sudanese government. In an unusual move, the Harvard Corporation agreed in April to divest...
...formed the campaign after learning that Harvard had doubled its shares in PetroChina during the final quarter of 2004, even in the face of widespread anger over the investment. By February, over 80 professors and 600 students had signed on online petition calling on Harvard to divest from the company...
This April, following the recommendation of the ACSR, the CCSR decided to divest from PetroChina, an oil company with ties to the Sudanese government...
...University’s investments this year were also targeted by students and faculty who pressured Harvard to divest from the oil company PetroChina because of its ties to the government in Sudan. The Corporation voted to sell its shares last month...
...deadly civil war in southern Sudan languished out of the limelight for more than two decades. But Harvard’s move to divest from PetroChina grabbed headlines both locally and in far-flung papers—from Singapore’s Straits Times to the Paris-based International Herald Tribune...