Pax Communication’s client Investors Against Genocide, together with the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO,) today wrote supporters with an update regarding recent positive developments in their engagement with the UN Global Compact over the complaint against PetroChina. According to the complaint, PetroChina, a UN Global Compact participant, should engage with the Government [Continue reading...]
Update on NGOs complaint to UN Global Compact re PetroChina
March 9th, 2009US Pension giant TIAA-CREF attacked over Sudan engagement
February 27th, 2009Fund says engagement is working and that it is passionate about change in Darfur.
TIAA-CREF, the giant $400bn (€314bn) US pension plan and investment fund group for US teachers and researchers, has come under fire from NGOs who accuse it of increasing its controversial equity holding in PetroChina while simultaneously lobbying the company to use its [Continue reading...]
Tell the Supreme Court to invalidate Prop 8 and let loving, committed couples marry. DEADLINE: Valentine’s Day
February 9th, 2009We, the undersigned, share President Barack Obama’s view that “for too long, issues of LGBT rights have been exploited by those seeking to divide us. It’s time to move beyond polarization and live up to our founding promise of equality by treating all our citizens with dignity and respect.”
Yet, on December 19, 2008, Ken Starr [Continue reading...]
US student protesters appeal to Clinton over Darfur violence
February 8th, 2009From Sudan Tribune
February 7, 2009 (WASHINGTON) – Student protesters marched around the US State Department on Friday calling for stronger intervention in Darfur.
Student protesters demonstrating in front of the US State Department (ST) The protest was part of a campaign called “Darfur from Day One” organized by three main activist groups.
The ten students held signs [Continue reading...]
Will Obama Act to End Darfur Tragedy? – Op-ed in Baltimore Sun
February 6th, 2009By Raj Purohit and Howard Salter
In the coming days, President Barack Obama will be presented with an opportunity to tackle a foreign policy challenge frequently raised on the campaign trail: the human rights crisis in Darfur.
Since 2003, the Sudanese government and its militia allies have killed and displaced hundreds of thousands of Darfur’s civilians. The [Continue reading...]
ACTION: Call the State Department today – 30,000 lives at stake in Darfur
February 3rd, 2009But critics charge that the program — meant to provide displaced people in Sudan with “accurate and objective information about their country” — is instead broadcasting in a language most of its target audience doesn’t understand and has watered-down criticisms of Sudanese officials (whom the U.S. government holds responsible for genocide in Darfur). An outspoken Darfuri-American news reader who repeatedly challenged the program’s non-Darfuri editors has also been fired.