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After visiting a refugee camp in Darfur, Cambridge’s congressional representative called last week for Harvard to divest funds from companies with business ties to the Sudanese government. In an interview from Ghana with the Boston Herald, U.S. Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Mass., said the University should “do what’s right” and sever financial connections to the Khartoum regime, which the U.S. government has accused of supporting genocide. This isn’t the first time Capuano has broached the divestment issue. Last April, he asked public pension boards in Massachusetts...
...office of U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton; HDAG hopes that Bolton will use his remaining time as president of the UN Security Council to deploy peacekeeping forces into Darfur. Others dialed up Massachusetts state politicians to voice their support for Massachusetts Senate Bill 2166. The bill would divest all state funds from businesses with financial ties to Sudan. Students also urged their respective U.S. Representatives to vote in favor of the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act, a federal bill that has stalled in the House since being passed in the Senate last November. HDAG Co-Chair of Political...
Brown University’s highest governing board voted Saturday to divest its holdings in companies doing business in Sudan—becoming the second Ivy League university to do so in the last month...
...While divestment from PetroChina this past April made Harvard the first university to divest its holdings from companies tied to Sudan, its divestment has not been as comprehensive as that of either Yale or Brown...
...vu.When Bok was at Harvard’s helm in the late 1970s, the campus was consumed by a controversy over the University’s financial links to apartheid-era South Africa.Bok, who returns to Mass. Hall on July 1, took a skeptical stance toward divestment demands.In open letters to the Harvard community, Bok wrote that he believed divestment was unlikely to help end apartheid, and might threaten the University’s academic mission and financial stability.This time, as students want Harvard to sever ties with companies that do business with the Sudanese government, Bok?...