Lynne Featherstone, Hornsey and Wood Green MP has written to Haringey Council urging it to investigate whether Haringey Council’s own investments in any way financially support Sudan, and in those cases they do, withdraw investments of such funds through targeted divestment.

Ms Featherstone also intends to start a local Darfur Action Group and is urging people to get in touch if they are interested in helping setting such a group us by sending an e-mail to lynne@lynnefeatherstone.org.

Ms Featherstone said:

“The regime in Sudan has played the international community for fools. It is time we face up to the ongoing genocide in Darfur and tackle it in any way possible – that means internationally, nationally and locally.

“By ensuring that none of the council’s investments indirectly or directly supports Sudan or companies supporting Sudan, Haringey has a real chance to make a difference as the first British Council to disinvest.

“I will also be setting up a local Darfur Action Group as well so anyone interested to join please get in touch, and let’s do more for Sudan and chip away at that awful sense of the meagreness of the UK’s response to such monstrous brutality. If we don’t act, who will?”