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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...
...former Treasury secretary expressed concern with the decreasing level of attention given to Sudan by the United States. United Nations officials estimate that as many as 200,000 people have died as a result of clashes between Sudanese government-backed militias and black Muslims in the western region of Darfur, and the U.S. Congress passed a resolution in 2004 stating that the situation rises to the level of genocide.“I’m disturbed that there seems to be some evidence of some diminution of concern by our government about what’s happening in Darfur...
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...
Nearly 100 students called in their support for the victims of the ongoing Sudanese genocide at an Adams House phone-banking event sponsored by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG). The organizers of “Triple Play Call-In Day” asked students to call lawmakers at the state, national, and international level in support of policies to end the genocide. “I think it’s important to be aware of what’s going on in the world,” said Janaki N. Kibe ’08, an Adams resident...
...declare our solidarity with the peoples of the Darfur region of Sudan whose struggle to live in peace, freedom and security is an issue of pressing global concern,” Simmons said in a statement. Brown’s advisory committee on corporate responsibility issued a recommendation for divestment to the Corporation earlier this month, which was seconded by Simmons...