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9 Feb 2009

Author:
Mark Moody Stuart, Vice Chair, UN Global Compact board, Letter to Eric Cohen, Chairperson, Investors Against Genocide, and Bart Slob, Senior Researcher, SOMO

[PDF] [Letter from Sir Mark Moody Stuart to NGOs regarding UN Global Compact, PetroChina and Sudan]

As I see it, your letter raises two main concerns. The first is the reluctance of the Global Compact Office to address the issue of PetroChina’s alleged egregious human rights abuses in Sudan through the Global Compact Integrity Measures. The second is that because oil revenues provide the main income to the Government of Sudan, any activity in the extraction of hydrocarbons in Sudan constitutes complicity with the Government of Sudan…