Word: sudan
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...effort urging students to withhold Senior Gift donations until Harvard University divests from PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil company with ties to the government in Sudan, is set to begin today...
...their letter, released yesterday to The Crimson, Mahan and Terry asked their classmates “to refuse to contribute to the Senior Gift because Harvard, through its investments, is complicit in the Sudan crisis...
...gift campaign is not the first of Mahan and Terry’s efforts for divestment. Last year, the pair demonstrated against graduation speaker and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan for failing to take action against the genocide in Sudan...
...companies have been prohibited from investing in Sudan since President Clinton imposed economic sanctions against the Khartoum regime in November...
PetroChina officials have assured investors that the firm does not deal directly with Sudan. But the firm is a spin-off of the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), which has invested more than $1 billion in a joint venture with the government of Sudan to boost that country’s oil production. CNPC still controls 90 percent of PetroChina, and a restructuring plan unveiled late last year would move all of CNPC’s overseas assets—including its Sudan stake—directly into PetroChina’s hands...