March 31, 2006

U. of Calif. Divests Holdings in Sudan

By PAUL FAIN

The University of California has become the latest of several universities that have agreed to divest their holdings in companies that do business with the government of Sudan. The university's Board of Regents voted unanimously this month to divest to protest the Sudanese government's participation in ethnic-based atrocities in the Darfur region of the country.

"This is the first time that a genocide has been declared as it's ongoing, which gives institutions the impetus to act," said

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