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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Abbreviation BDS Formation 9 July 2005 (2005-07-09) Founder Omar Barghouti, Ramy Shaat Type Nonprofit organization Purpose Boycotts, political activism General Coordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa Main organ Palestinian BDS National Committee Website bdsmovement.net A BDS ...
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The demand has its roots in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a decades-old campaign against Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. ... “Such actions threaten academic freedom ...
The conference was not successful in persuading Britain to take up economic sanctions against South Africa. Rather, the British government remained firm in its view that the imposition of sanctions would be unconstitutional "because we do not accept that this situation in South Africa constitutes a threat to international peace and security and we do not, in any case, believe that sanctions ...
By this time, after much debate, the United States, the United Kingdom, and 23 other nations had passed laws placing various trade sanctions on South Africa. A disinvestment from South Africa movement in many countries was similarly widespread, with individual cities and provinces around the world implementing various laws and local regulations ...
Put most simply, divestment is the opposite of investment. Many universities have an endowment, which is donated funds generally invested in stocks, bonds and other financial instruments to help ...
Disinvestment refers to the use of a concerted economic boycott to pressure a government, industry, or company towards a change in policy, or in the case of governments, even regime change. The term was first used in the 1980s, most commonly in the United States , to refer to the use of a concerted economic boycott designed to pressure the ...