The European Commission is working on a proposal for a directive on corporate social governance, which will include a regulation of the human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) obligations of corporations. We urge the proposed new regulation to become legally binding on the due...
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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2021/12/31
Issue: Climate Change, Corruption, European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2021/09/29
Country: Germany
ECAs: Euler Hermes Deutschland AG
Issue: Climate Change, Human Rights, Oil, Gas and Mining
Member: urgewald
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.
- German government provides support for oil...
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2020/06/29
Issue: Climate Change, Common Approaches, European Union, Human Rights, OECD, Transparency
Click below to download the full text of the 18 page ECA Watch gap analysis.
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2018/06/28
Issue: European Union, Human Rights, Transparency
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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External reports and publications
2015/02/18
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...
more 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
Issue: European Union, Human Rights
(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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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/03/18
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Above Ground
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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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/03/18
Issue: Human Rights
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.
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2013/02/24
(Feb 2013) This report from Wiert Wiertsema of...
more Dodgy Deal: Dredging Suape harbour
ECAs: Atradius
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Both ENDS
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2011/11/08
Issue: Common Approaches, Human Rights, OECD
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.
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2011/06/16
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
(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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Letters & statements
2011/04/16
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
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Letters & statements
2007/03/19
(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...
more Dodgy Deal: Ilisu Dam
Issue: Human Rights, Large Dams
Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2006/09/15
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Corner House
(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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Briefings & reports from ECA watch members
2002/12/18
Issue: Human Rights
Member: Corner House, FERN, Above Ground
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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