Word: sudan
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...have lost everything but my children. We have three bowls of grain left." ZAHARA ISSAC MAHAMAT, a refugee in Chad, where violence has spilled over from the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan, driving some 20,000 residents from their homes...
...student petition calling for divestment from firms operating in Sudan has re-emerged with a new focus on the Beijing-based oil company Sinopec and has garnered roughly 200 signatures over the past week, according to organizers. The original petition last year urged Harvard to sell its stake in PetroChina, another oil company linked to Sudan. Harvard ultimately divested from that firm last spring.And in a Mass Hall interview yesterday, University President Lawrence H. Summers expressed his hope that Harvard will quickly move to examine the issue of divestment from Sudan-linked companies that remain in its portfolio...
...However, Bok simultaneously allocated a million dollars for black South Africans to study at Harvard and for Harvard affiliates to work for the public interest in South Africa.Upon his return, Bok will again face the issue of divestment, this time with Sinopec, a business with ties to Sudan. Vagts says that the cases are extremely different, at least from a moral perspective. He explains that the South African companies—while taking part in an oppressive regime—also allowed black workers to receive an education they would otherwise be denied, making Bok’s decision...
...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 to sever ties from firms with financial holdings in Sudan. Capuano is travelling in Africa with a congressional delegation. His office did not respond to a request for comment yesterday. Harvard divested its endowment holdings in PetroChina, a subsidiary of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation, in early 2005, after mounting pressure from students, faculty, and alumni. But the University has maintained...
...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 Advocacy Caroline B. Simmons ’08 said...