Form in which an organization can declare its a Shell Free Zone and provide organizational information. The declaration says the government of South Africa has maintained a state of emergency since July 20, 1985, with increased military and police actions in the black townships, has restricted the operation of democratic organizations, and has denied the majority of South Africans theirbasic human rights. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Reverend Allan Boesak, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa (NUM) have called on U.S. organizations to join in this international campaign. Royal Dutch/Shell,...
Form in which an organization can declare its a Shell Free Zone and provide organizational information. The declaration says the government of South Africa has maintained a state of emergency since July 20, 1985, with increased military and police actions in the black townships, has restricted the operation of democratic organizations, and has denied the majority of South Africans theirbasic human rights. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Reverend Allan Boesak, the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa (NUM) have called on U.S. organizations to join in this international campaign. Royal Dutch/Shell, through its subsidiary, Shell South Africa, provides the South African police and military fuel vital to their efforts to enforce apartheid. Major U.S. religious, civil rights, labor, and anti-apartheid organizations have responded to this call. The declaration commits an organization not to purchase or utilize Shell products until Royal Dutch/Shell, in consultation with its workers and their unions, disinvests from and severs all ties with South Africa.
