Today, Cardiff Metropolitan University made a landmark announcement in support of migrants’ rights by approving a policy to never invest in companies complicit in violence against people migrating and seeking sanctuary. An unprecedented act in UK higher education, Cardiff Metropolitan’s decision is also the first victory for the student-led Divest Borders campaign, which was launched 11 months ago and is gaining broad support and traction across UK universities.
Cardiff Metropolitan University has included in its Ethical Investment and Banking Policy the commitment to ‘screen out Border Industry companies’. This forms part of the University’s wider approach to not invest in ‘companies or activities which are considered to be unethical’ and which ‘threaten community and international stability’.
