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...severing its financial ties with PetroChina, a company closely associated with the Sudanese government and its ongoing genocide in Darfur, Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) successfully balanced the need to make a symbolic statement against the genocide with its equally pressing need for freedom in Harvard’s financial dealings. Divestment proponents, led by the United Front for Divestment (UFD), should feel pleased and vindicated by the decision. But their recent calls for further divestment and greater transparency in the dealings of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University?...
...potential slew of causes. PetroChina’s parent company, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), is a leading partner with the Sudanese government in the country’s production of oil, a major funding source for the government’s sanctioned genocide of the people of Darfur. A 40 percent stakeholder in a major Southern Sudanese oil concession, PetroChina’s parent company is also increasingly difficult to distinguish from PetroChina itself, leaving Petrochina culpable for CNPC’s indirect funding of the Sudanese genocide...
...student activists. Now is not a time for more criticism. It is a time for hope that a morally justified divestment from PetroChina will be more than just the right thing to do. Perhaps in some small way it will ultimately lead to better lives for the people of Darfur...
...members of the executive committee all said they intend to keep working against the Darfur genocide with other groups...
Stirred by reports of genocide in Sudan, Swarthmore College senior Mark Hanis concocted a zany scheme last fall: an “adopt-a-peacekeeper” fund to finance an African Union (AU) force stationed in Darfur...