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Professor Matthew Rimmer at the QUT Forum on Divestment and Social Change on the 22nd November 2016 - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/symposium-divestment-and-social-change-tickets-28678829150#
Symposium: Divestment and Social Change
Presenters in this symposium will explore the social, financial, and legal debates regarding the rise of divestment movements around public health, climate change and asylum seeker detention centres.
In the field of public health, there has been a push to encourage governments, pension funds, and superannuation to divest from tobacco companies. Similarly, in the area of environment and climate change, the fossil fuel divestment movement has come to the fore. In the field of human rights, there is interest in the use of divestment strategies as a means to disrupt investment in companies profiting from offshore detention centres. There has been discussion about the use of divestment in respect of other fields of activity – such as in relation to armaments and munitions.
The symposium will provide a cross-disciplinary, scholarly consideration of the politics of divestment, featuring experts from law, business, and civil society.
Keywords
- Tobacco Control,
- Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products
Disciplines
Publication Date
November 22, 2016
Citation Information
Matthew Rimmer. "Tobacco Divestment" (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/293/