Investors have the power to fight Darfur genocide

DIVESTMENT KEY TO PRESSURING SUDAN TO END CONFLICT
By Kathy Kristof

Adam Sterling wants individual investors to know that they are a powerful force - and they can use that power to help stop genocide halfway across the world in the Sudanese region of Darfur.

Sterling believes that if American investors pull their money from companies that fund the Sudanese government, that government will be forced to curtail atrocities by its forces and allied militias in their fight against Darfur rebels. In four years of conflict, more than 200,000 villagers in the region have died and more than 2.5 million have fled their homes, the United Nations says.

"Divestment has been the one real action that the government of Sudan has responded to," said Sterling, director of the Sudan Divestment Task Force in Washington. "Genocide is expensive. The Sudanese government relies heavily on foreign investment to fund its military and the janjaweed militias." Read more >>>