Following the refusal by the UN Global Compact (UNGC) to accept and act on a formal complaint of "systematic or egregious abuse" of the Global Compact's overall aims and principles by PetroChina, a UNGC participant, the NGOs that submitted the complaint plan to escalate the matter to the UNGC's Board of Directors…The complaint was supported in an open letter sent to the UNGC by over 80 civil society organizations…PetroChina, the publicly traded arm of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), is Sudan's largest oil industry partner with extensive financial links to the regime perpetuating the six-year humanitarian crisis in Darfur…