(Globe and Mail, Toronto, 21 September 2016) In 2015 Netsweeper Inc. of Waterloo Ontario, with support from Export Development Canada, sold Internet filtering technology to the government of Bahrain — a country criticized internationally for widespread suppression of human rights defenders...
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2017/07/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights, Transparency
Member: Above Ground
2017/06/30
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Above Ground
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 14 June 2017) Our latest correspondence with Export Development Canada (EDC) about the impacts in Colombia of two oil...
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2017/02/28
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Guardian, Washington, 22 February 2017) Between 2007 and 2015, the U.S. Export-Import Bank provided $315m in 48 taxpayer-supported insurance policies to the New Jersey-headquartered Connell Company to pursue deals with at least 17 mining companies accused of slave labor, human rights...
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2017/02/28
Country: Canada
ECAs: Export Development Canada
Issue: Human Rights
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 15 February 2017) Last year an Ontario-based company, with support from Export Development Canada, sold Internet filtering technology to the government of Bahrain — a country criticized internationally for widespread suppression of human rights defenders through...
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2016/12/30
Country: Indonesia, Japan
ECAs: Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Issue: Climate Change, End Coal Financing, Human Rights
Member: Friends of the Earth Japan
(FOE Japan, Tokyo, 5 December 2016) On December 5, eleven local Indonesian community leaders, who have continued to oppose the “Batang Coal-fired Power Plant Project” over five years now, visited the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) Jakarta office and submitted their objections...
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2016/12/30
ECAs: COFACE, EXIM Bank China, SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(TFX News, London, 12 December 2016) ECAs are to offer guarantees for two LNG projects in Mozambique, as commercial lenders watch closely to see how talks progress between the government and the IMF before committing to the project. Export credit agencies (ECAs),...
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2016/12/27
Country: Australia, USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: Jubilee Australia
(wsws.org, Jacksonville, 19 December 2016) The Papua New Guinea (PNG) government announced on Friday that it will deploy military personnel to stop “violence” near the country’s biggest resources installation, the Exxon-Mobil Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project...The security and viability of...
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2016/11/30
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Member: Both ENDS
(ECA Watch, 30 November 2016, Ottawa) In a report dated November 30th 2016 the Dutch...
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2016/11/29
Issue: Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
(Bank Track, Nijmegen, 30 November 2016) Members of Banktrack wrote to the Chair of the Equator Principles Association earlier this month, to urge the Association at its upcoming Annual Meeting to address two...
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2016/06/29
Issue: Human Rights
(ECCJ, Brussels, 20 June 2016) European NGOs, while welcoming the EU Foreign Affairs Council's Conclusions on business and human rights, have called for their rapid translation into practice. They note too that the Conclusions reflect the Dutch presidency and EU Members States’ acknowledgement...
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2016/05/31
Country: USA
ECAs: Export-Import Bank of the United States
Issue: Corruption, Human Rights
(Friends of the Earth, Washington, 11 May 2016) The U.S. Export-Import Bank loves to remind us that it is not a development agency, and, therefore, is not held to the same requirements as say a development finance institution. Even still, some of the governments that the head of Ex...
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2015/10/30
Country: Italy
ECAs: SACE S.p.A.
Issue: Human Rights
(Tass, Verona, 22 October 2015) The Italian export credit agency SACE has suffered losses up to €3 billion due to sanctions against Russia, head of the agency Giovanni Castallaneta said. "We have already suffered damage for 2014-2015 for the sum of €2.5-3 billion," Castellaneta told the...
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2015/09/30
Country: Turkey
(Hasankeyf Action Day, Hasankeyf, 20 September 2015) On September 20th, activists, social movements and NGO's joined an international action day for the conservation of Hasankeyf and the Tigris River. Protesting against the Ilisu Dam Project, a large demonstration took place in the 10.000 year...
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ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Issue: Human Rights, Large Dams, Transparency
2015/05/30
Country: United Kingdom
ECAs: UK Export Finance (UKEF)
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Renewables
Member: Corner House
(Global Trade Review, London, 13 April 2015) The Labour Party's Cole Commission has called for the combination of the UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and UK Export Finance (UKEF) agencies into one entity to achieve better co-ordination and support of British exporters....
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2015/02/28
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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
(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:...