Posts Tagged ‘Tibet’

Proxy Voting Guidelines - Social Issues

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AND PREDATORY LENDING
We support resolutions that promote community reinvestment by financial institutions in low-income, often predominantly minority communities. We also support resolutions against predatory lending practices.
DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Burma
We support resolutions that seek to stop companies doing business with the Burmese military junta.
Chad-Cameroon Pipeline
We support resolutions that ask companies to review the impact […]

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Saving Tibet

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Preventing Cultural Genocide
“The very survival of Tibetans as a distinct people is under constant threat.”

- The Dalai Lama

Since 1949, when Chinese troops took over the country, Tibet has endured a brutal occupation. It is estimated that the Chinese regime has killed over one million Tibetans and destroyed much of Tibet’s religious heritage. Today, Tibetans lack […]

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