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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2021/09/29

New report reveals: German government sabotages international energy transition through guarantees for oil and gas industry

Berlin 15.09.2021

A new report by the environmental organisations urgewald and Deutsche Umwelt-Hilfe (DUH) shows that the German government is supporting climate-damaging oil and gas projects with guarantees worth billions of euros.

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Country: Germany ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining Member: urgewald

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2020/06/29

Preliminary Gap Analysis of OECD Common Approaches versus illustrative European Union objectives

Click below to download the full text of the 18 page ECA Watch gap analysis.

 
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2018/06/28

ECA Watch applaudes European Ombudsman demand for greater EU ECA transparency on human rights and environmental impacts

PRESS RELEASE

ECA-watch applauds the European Ombudsman’s ruling on maladministration of the European Commission in checking compliance of European Export Credit Agencies with EU law...

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Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency

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

Letters & statements 2013/07/17

Giving human rights credit: EU countries agree to toughen export loan scrutiny

(Brussels, 29 June 2011)A press release from ECA-Wach, Amnesty International and Eurodad. It welcomes EU permanent representatives' endorsement of the European Parliament’s proposal to make national export credit agencies (ECAs) more accountable for the support they give companies...
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Issue: European Union, Human Rights

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2013/03/18

Export credit agencies and the International Law of Human Rights

This paper was prepared by ECA-Watch member, the Halifax Initiative, to inform the mandate of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on business and human rights. The paper examines international human rights law and export...

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Issue: Human Rights Member: Above Ground

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2013/03/18

ECA Watch submission to UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises

In this submission, ECA Watch urges the newly-established Working Group to address the human rights impact of export credit agencies during its mandate. From December 8, 2011.
Issue: Human Rights

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

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2011/11/08

ECA Watch Comments on Draft Revision of OECD Common Approaches

Letter from ECA Watch to members of the OECD's ECG, November 8, 2011.

Among other issues, ECA Watch responds to text concerning human rights in the latest draft revision of the Common Approaches.

 
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2011/06/16

Giving human rights credit: EU countries agree to toughen export loan scrutiny

(June 29, 2011) A press release from ECA-Wach, Amnesty International and Eurodad. It welcomes EU permanent representatives' endorsement of the European...

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Country: Belgium Issue: Human Rights, Transparency Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald

Letters & statements 2011/04/16

European Parliament demands that Export Credit Agencies open up

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Country: Belgium Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency Member: Both ENDS, Corner House, Counter Current, Finance & Trade Watch, Euronatura, FERN, Friends of the Earth Japan, Above Ground, Les Amis de la Terre, Observatory on Debt in Globalization, , Re:Common, urgewald

Letters & statements 2007/03/19

Newroz Statement of Solidarity

 

(March 19, 2007) At the occasion of the Newroz celebrations 2007, the European ECA Reform Campaign reaffirms its opposition to European export credit support for the planned Ilisu Dam in Southeast Turkey.  It also expresses solidarity with the many thousands who are currently...
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Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Human Rights, Large Dams

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2006/09/15

ECAs and the Licence to Finance: Consultation, Participation and the OECD's Recommendation on Common Approaches

 

(September 15, 2006) This paper by Nick Hildyard of the Corner House gives recommendations on how to address deficiencies in current ECA policy with regard to consultation and participation and argues that affected communities and indigenous peoples must be recognized as rights...
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Issue: Human Rights Member: Corner House

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 2002/12/18

Linking Investment and Human Rights: the case of export credit agencies

ECA Watch campaign participants, reporting from an NGO strategy session held in London, December 6-7, 2002, organized by the Halifax Initiative (Canada), FERN (Belgium), ...

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Issue: Human Rights Member: Corner House, FERN, Above Ground

Briefings & reports from ECA watch members 1999/06/30

Snouts in the trough

(30 June 1999) This report from Nicholas Hildyard of Cornerhouse examines export credit agencies, corporate welfare and policy incoherence.

Summary: Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) are publicly-backed government agencies that give financial guarantees to...

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Issue: Arms Trade, Climate Change, Debt, Human Rights, Large Dams, Oil, Gas and Mining, Transparency Member: Corner House