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Harvard has long been accused of maintaining “dirty” investments tainted by their ties to the genocide in Darfur. Now, a private equity fund that counts the University as a major investor has pledged $500 million toward a “cleaner” objective...
...exception is Darfur, which still retains the power to shock and move. But the intensity of the crime marks it as the exception. Only genocides move...
...lower level of the Faculty Club. The two groups talked about career prospects at the prominent Swiss bank over refreshments. A screen at the front of the room read, “Global success begins with individual contribution. It starts with you.” Outside the building, Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) members handed out small yellow flyers posing the question: “Do YOU want to work for a company that underwrites GENOCIDE?” The group’s efforts are directed at helping people understand the role UBS plays in genocide in Sudan, said...
...proceeds of PetroChina’s listing "will only be used in [China]," is just plain unverifiable. Money is fungible, and CNPC has invested millions of dollars in Sudanese oil projects. This oil money bankrolls the Khartoum regime; PetroChina has the power to influence what is going on in Darfur by tightening the regime’s pursestrings...
...does this matter? There are two immediate reasons. The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Somalia is now on a par, in numbers and acuteness, with Darfur. The U.N. says 1.5 million people need assistance, of which a mere 60,000 are getting it. And Somalia is of significant strategic interest. Pirates based there regularly strike ships heading to and from the Suez Canal, and attacks have rocketed this year. The conflict in Somalia - which pits Ethiopian and T.F.G. troops against Somali rebels, backed by Eritrea - also has the potential to ignite a larger regional war that engulfs the Horn of Africa...