March 3, 2006

Yale Ends Investments in Sudan Over Darfur

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Yale University has agreed to adopt a policy of divestment in Sudan, saying the move was a response to government-backed genocide in the country's Darfur region.

Yale's policy is broader than those approved by Harvard and Stanford Universities and a few others, but it does not go as far as those recently adopted by some other institutions and a few state pension funds. It bars investments of Yale's endowment assets in any bonds or other obligations of the Sudanese government and in

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