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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to support the international Sudan/Darfur Divestment campaign and ask UK pension funds and investors to divest from those businesses operating in Sudan that create revenue for the Sudanese government, provide little economic benefit to Sudanese citizens, and allow Khartoum to continue to conduct mass killings in Darfur and eastern Chad, thus ensuring that British money is not being used to indirectly fund atrocities. More details
Submitted by Victoria Pearse of the Darfur Divestment Campaign of Aegis Trust – Deadline to sign up by: 31 May 2008 – Signatures: 180
More details from petition creator
The targeted divestment campaign focuses only on companies that fulfill the following criteria: - provide significant revenue streams to the Sudanese Government, - provide little or no economic benefit to ordinary Sudanese civilians, and - have demonstrated no corporate governance policy with regards to Darfur.
Targeted divestment is careful to minimise any humanitarian impact, for instance by not targeting the agricultural sector, which still employs 80% of the Sudanese workforce.
Following four years of ethnic cleansing in Darfur by the government of Sudan against its own people, political pressure has done little to stop the murder, rape and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese. Up to 400,000 have been murdered and at least 2.5 million are displaced and relying on international aid to survive.
The UK targeted divestment campaign is part of an international campaign that seeks to press Khartoum to end its role in the mass killings and to allow a UN peacekeeping force of 20,000 into the Darfur region to protect civilians.
Current signatories
Victoria Pearse of the Darfur Divestment Campaign, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- roy scott
- Sandra Shmueli
- Andrew Constantine, English Democrats
- Dan Robinson
- Mike Caro
- Nicholas Donovan
- verity mitchell
- CHARLOTTE KILINC
- Sam Duerden
- jack merriott
- sheena
- Fergus Eckersley
- daisy hildyard
- jacquetta haythorn
- Patrick Curry
- Ian Ross
- Nicole Merville
- Gemma Coupe
- Shoshana Bloom
- Genevieve Easton
- Aimee Parnell
- Julia Raybould
- Max Hogg
- Victoria Bryans
- Pollyanna Burtinshaw
- Elizabeth Steiner
- Oliver Courtney
- Irene Pearse
- Rob Ager
- Nicola Robinson
- Adam Ralph
- Edward Robinson
- matilda gifford
- Nilmini Herath
- James Mendelsohn
- Alex Pearse
- Daniel Filson
- Andrew Reid
- Rosemarie Fenwick
- ken shuttlewood
- Jamie Scott
- Richard Marx
- Claire Smith
- Sarah May
- Emma Collison
- Elizabeth Whitney
- farjana ali
- Rachel Bridgeland
- Rebecca Derbyshire
- Chris Benner
- Jennifer Miller
- Mary Dixon
- deborah goodwin
- Emma Reid
- Chris Drinkwater
- Adeline Beek
- Dan Alliband
- teresa baker
- Caroline Dickson
- Andrew Swann
- claire russell
- Eleanor Boyd
- Sharon Champion
- Clare Cummings
- matthew boyd
- Celeste Slater
- James Brooke
- Gaby Lebens
- Samuel Lebens
- Jim Huthwaite
- Susan Wallace
- Rosemary Chamberlin
- Tanya O'Carroll
- sandie clear
- Clive Goldstein
- Amanda Walters
- Kate Moore
- Sean Haffey
- Anita Woodruff
- Joanne Singletary
- eileen mcelhinney
- Lisa Neidich
- Koel Mukherjee
- Annie Ring
- Peter Moore
- Barbara Ring
- Paul McVay
- Steve Swift
- Christine Reissland
- Stephen Edwards
- Amanda Penman
- Richard Lyons
- Marcia Kia Simpson-James
- hazel ellis
- Patrick Toner
- Ashley Rolleston
- Thomas Davies
- Paul Kittle
- Rebecca Elizabeth Hitcham
- Hratche Koundarjian
- Bernard Greenwood
- Vince Molloy, St Oswald Justice and Peace Group 36 members
- Elizabeth Ann Elliott
- Helen Loizou
- Stephen Greenwood
- Brian Patrick Moore
- Ann Whitfield
- Anil Sachdeo
- Shilpa Abrol
- Nicolas G B Blackhurst
- Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
- Margaret King; agree very strongly. See also my GetRidOfJanjweed petition
- helen
- Carly
- Patricia Crombie
- Henry Donati
- Philip Attwood
- Arlene Elizabeth Floyd
- Peter Sparrow
- sophie butler
- Katy Potts
- Shilpa Shah
- Marc Kaufmann
- Anna McIvor
- Stephen Nelson
- Valerie Neal
- FRANCK HARDEMAN
- Joan Wilding
- Tim Ashford
- Adam Bisset
- Stephanie Painter
- E Sanders
- Dr Jennifer Mindell
- Ruth Symmons
- Joanna Humphrey
- j mu
- philip camp
- Cynthia Stokes-Adam
- Christopher E. A. Raeburn
- Amy Symonds
- jennifer robinson
- Martin Shapland
- Kadija Daramy
- Bronte Snow
- summer swerner
- milly gale
- Marie Gallagher
- Wilma Parkinson
- Ben Martin
- Natasha Roberts
- James Pergande
- Sandra Eachus
- Mr Andrew Partington
- David Henry Gamon
- Rachel Hayes
- Matt Phipps
- Pascal Geldsetzer
- brian varney
- Martin Layton
- Cass Chideock
- Sandhya Murthy
- Colin Smith
- Peter Sire
- Adrian Upex
- Nick Street
- Alison Sage
- RAYMOND F. BRUSOKAS
- Maximilian Nilsson-Ladner
- Francisco Peres
- Neil Rubin
- Brian watt
- Anne Nurse
- Nicole Ludeke
- Chloe Jaksics
- Richard Carling
- Denis R. Underwood
- Rosemary Cooper
- Linda Asquith
- Tom Tamplin
