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Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) celebrated an important victory last week as Governor Palin divested $15,000 of her money from companies complicit in the Darfur genocide. Palin’s investments in "high-offender" companies were first reported by ABC News, which learned of them by drawing on the Sudan Company Report, produced annually by GI-Net.

2007 Echoing Green Fellow Mark Hanis, who is Executive Director of GI-Net, said: "The Genocide Intervention Network and its partners have called on all presidential candidates to ensure that they do not have holdings in companies identified as 'highest offenders' in Sudan. We are pleased that Governor Palin, and all of the major parties’ presidential candidates, have followed the lead of twenty-seven states, sixty-one universities, and twenty cities in ensuring that U.S. investments do not support genocide in Sudan.” (The full article can be read here.)

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