Anti-Apartheid Organizations Issue Guidelines for Divestment

Creator

American Committee on Africa

Contributor

American Friends Service Committee, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, TransAfrica, Washington Office on Africa

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

January 19, 1987

Type of Item

Press Release

Length/duration

4 pages

Description

Press release on Guidelines for Divestment for companies doing business in South Africa and Namibia and a statement issued by five national anti-apartheid organizations – the American Committee on Africa, American Friends Service Committee, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, TransAfrica, and the Washington Office on Africa. The press release quotes Jennifer Davis. The press release includes Guidelines for Divestment, which will enable investors and consumers to judge whether companies are still supporting apartheid, and Statement on U.S. Companies and South Africa. The organizations' statement says that IBM, GM, Coca Cola and other U.S. companies that have ended direct investment...

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Organization

American Committee on Africa

Coverage Africa

Namibia
South Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

This item was digitized for Aluka, which made it available to the African Activist Archive. See: http://www.aluka.org/

Rights Management

Used by permission of Africa Action (successor to the American Committee on Africa).

Collection

Africa Action Archive