(MACAUHUB, Macau, 30 September 2019) Despite overwhelming evidence that the proect will emit at least 5.2 million tons of...
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2019/10/30
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Climate Change, Debt, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
2019/08/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, Human Rights, Transparency
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa 29 August 2019) For decades, Export Development Canada (EDC) has been subject to minimal public scrutiny, with media and Parliament rarely asking questions about the social and environmental costs of the business it supports. But recently, with some of the agency’s highest...
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2019/07/29
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights
(Reuters, Toronto, 3 July 2019) Canada's export credit agency has lifted a "closed" status on Saudi Arabia-related activity after almost a year of frosty relations between the two countries, citing improved business conditions in the Middle Eastern kingdom. The move by Export Development Canada...
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2019/05/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Above Ground
(National Post, Ottawa, May 2019) OTTAWA — Export Development Canada is declaring itself a leading defender of human rights, but workers groups and advocates say the Crown agency’s long-awaited new policy falls well short of what’s needed. The United Steel Workers of Canada declared it a...
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2019/02/27
Country: Canada, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights
(20 Essex Street, London, 2 February 2019) A recent UN report with recommendations to advance efforts to eradicate modern slavery has mentioned, amongst other examples, the direct or indirect involvement of a state in the commission of offences via ECA funding of slavery-tainted enterprises....
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