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2020/01/29

Both ENDS: Export credit insurer Atradius played a crucial role in Angola

Translation of the original piece in Dutch found at the above link.

Opinion | Daniëlle Hirsch is director of Both ENDS

This week it came to light in the Dutch newspapers FD...

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Country: Netherlands ECAs: Atradius Issue: Corruption, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency Member: Both ENDS

2020/01/29

Luanda leaks show Dutch Export credit insurer Atradius involved in serious Angola human rights violations

(Guardian, Luanda, 20 January 2020) Until the summer of 2013, Areia Branca, a fishing village just outside Luanda, the capital of Angola, was home to a thriving fishing community of 3,000 families. Now there is no trace of their houses, only sand, a pile of gravel, egrets, a bulldozer and a...

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Country: Netherlands ECAs: Atradius Issue: Corruption, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency Member: Both ENDS

2018/07/27

Dutch ECA ADSB issues complaint guidelines

(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 28 June 2018) Following years of advocating with the Dutch export credit agency Atradius Dutch State Business (ADSB) to establish a complaints mechanism, and following active discussions between a number of Dutch NGOs and the Dutch ECA in recent months, ADSB has published...

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Country: Netherlands ECAs: Atradius Issue: Human Rights, Transparency Member: Both ENDS

2016/11/30

Dutch NCP rules that Dutch ECA is subject to OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

(ECA Watch, 30 November 2016, Ottawa) In a report dated November 30th 2016 the Dutch...

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Country: Brazil, Netherlands ECAs: Atradius Issue: Human Rights, OECD, Transparency Member: Both ENDS

2015/02/28

Export credit and human rights: Failure to Protect

(ECA Watch, Brussels, 18 February 2015) ECA Watch members Halifax Initiative, Both Ends and CounterCurrent, together with Brazilian organisation Forum Suape and Colombian organisation Movimiento Rios Vivos, published a new report entitled Export Credt and Human Rights:...

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Country: Brazil, Canada, Germany, Netherlands ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground

External reports and publications 2015/02/18

Export Credit and Human Rights: Failure to Protect

ECA Watch members Halifax Initiative, Both Ends and CounterCurrent, together with Brazilian organisation Forum Suape and Colombian organisation Movimiento Rios Vivos, published a new report entitled Export Credt and Human Rights: Failure to Protect. The report calls on states to...

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Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour, Lending to Belarus
ECAs: Atradius, Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Export Development Canada Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights Member: Both ENDS, Counter Current, Above Ground

2014/10/24

Controversial Suez canal expansion contract signed

(Both ENDS, Amsterdam, 23 October 2014) On 18 October it was reported that the Egyptian authorities signed a contract with an international consortium of dredging companies to expand the Suez canal. The consortium includes the two main Dutch dredging companies: Royal Boskalis...

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Country: Belgium, Netherlands, USA ECAs: Atradius Issue: Human Rights Member: Both ENDS

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2013/02/24

Review of dredging activities for entry channel and harbor basin of Promar S.A. shipyard, Suape, Brazil

(Feb 2013) This report from Wiert Wiertsema of...

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Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour
ECAs: Atradius Issue: Human Rights Member: Both ENDS