Sudan Divestment

EDM number 1338 in 2006-07, proposed by Andrew Mitchell on 24/04/2007.

That this House deplores the continuing atrocities in Darfur; notes that the government of Sudan is financially and strategically supporting these atrocities through its oil revenues; further notes that according to the World Bank and sources within Sudan, between 60 to 80 per cent. of the government of Sudan's revenue is spent on the military; supports the work of Sudan Divestment UK (SDUK), which campaigns to end global financial support for the government of Sudan and its military actions through targeted divestment; welcomes the withdrawal of Rolls Royce from the region because of `humanitarian concerns'; further welcomes the joint stance of leaders of the Political Youth Wings in a recent letter published in The Times, who have collectively endorsed SDUK's model of targeted divestment; calls on companies with a commercial relationship with government or government sponsored projects which impart minimal benefit to the country's people and have demonstrated no substantial corporate governance policy regarding the Darfur situation to cease their financial support for the Sudanese government; and further calls on the Government to look into ways of changing national and international business behaviour in the face of the manifest gross violations of human rights.

This motion has been signed by a total of 83 MPs.