EFFORTS BY STATES to put financial pressure on the government of Sudan to stop the genocide in Darfur are being challenged by big-business interests.
Illinois, New Jersey, Maine and Oregon have all passed laws to divest their public funds from companies doing business in the northern African nation, and similar legislation either is pending or will be introduced soon in more than a dozen other states. A number of municipalities, public and private universities, and pension funds have adopted divestment schemes of their own.
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