Human Rights Resolution before Yahoo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 30, 2008
Contact: John Harrington (707) 252-6166 Voice (707) 257-7923 Fax
http://www.harringtoninvestments.com
Attention: News or Business Editors


HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION BEFORE YAHOO
SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND ACTION ON EVE OF OLYMPICS

NAPA, CA - Harrington Investments, Inc., (HII) a socially responsible
investment advisory firm, will re-introduce a bylaw amendment to create a
Board Committee on Human Rights at Yahoo.

"Yahoo's directors have been unresponsive to the reality that human rights
are a real element of fiduciary responsibility," said John Harrington, CEO
of Harrington Investments.

Yahoo's mismanagement of human rights policy resulted in former House
Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos lambasting Yahoo co-founder
and CEO, Jerry Yang, saying that: "While technologically and financially
you are giants, morally you are pygmies. This testimony has been an
appallingly disappointing performance."

Aside from such embarrassing media attention, Yahoo! recently settled a
lawsuit with victims' families for an undisclosed sum.

Harrington believes that a Board Committee on Human Rights would serve
investors by respecting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. HII and
Human rights advocates have asked Yahoo! to take all possible legitimate
action to:

- avoid complying with government requests that may contravene human rights;

- challenge government policies that violate human rights in the context
of the Internet;

- provide transparency in its filtering process used to limit search results;

- ensure that its Chinese partner, Alibaba, as well as other partners and
subsidiaries in other countries, abide by the same principles;

- use the opportunity provided by the Beijing Olympics to call on the
Chinese government to release those detained for their peaceful use of
the Internet.

Yahoo's compliance with the Chinese government's demands for account-holder
information has led to long prison sentences for Chinese dissidents who
were peacefully exercising their right to freedom of
expression, a right entrenched in both international law and the Chinese
Constitution. In a related breach of international human rights standards,
Yahoo! has long complied with state directives to restrict its search
results, including information about human rights.

"Shareholder sponsored Human Rights Committees may be our only means of
reminding corporate directors that they are fiduciaries. These directors
are responsible for overseeing global management. Their decisions can lead
to, "or forestall", human rights violations. The associated legal and
financial liabilities are not trivial," Harrington added.

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