At 5pm Tuesday 19 June, Labour deputy leadership candidate Peter Hain MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, will address a public meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention, called to discuss targeted divestment and sanctions on over the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Darfur.

In a parliamentary debate on Darfur, Tuesday 5 June, shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague backed calls for targeted UK divestment from companies operating in Sudan whose investment enables the government to continue atrocities in the troubled region. Speaking to the house Mr Hague said, 'We believe that the time has come for the UK to make a formal policy of encouraging companies with financial ties with the Sudanese Government, or government-related projects, to reconsider those links'.

Sudan Divestment Oxford is contributing to a worldwide campaign to bring an end to this crisis through the use of targeted divestment. Within Oxford University we are putting pressure on colleges to divest from companies who are funding the Government of Sudan. Through this financial pressure we hope induce the Sudanese government into changing its actions in Darfur.