Darfur Investments
Monday,June, 18 ,2007 Filed in: Justice Issues
A bill to empower states to divest their pension funds from companies that help fund the genocide in Darfur is has been stuck in the Senate Banking Committee for two months.
Fifteen (15) states have courageously passed their own divestment policies in an effort to stop the violence in Darfur. This act would protect the rights of these states (and others) to divest from challenges by the National Foreign Trade Council, an organization which has already successfully challenged Illinois’ divestment policy. Urge Senate Banking Committee Chair Senator Dodd to stop the delay and send the Sudan Divestment Authorization Act to the Senate floor NOW for a vote.