Canada, the Bank and Fund - Statements and submissions
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We provide alternative perspectives on issues relating to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Export credit agencies (International Financial Institutions or IFIs), and issues including international debt, IMF and World Bank conditionality, environmental standards, human rights and international finance, IFI governance and accountability, corporate accountability.
UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights held its first forum on December 4 and 5 in Geneva. The Halifax Initiative spoke at the forum on a panel concerning public financial institutions and human rights. ECA-Watch, CIEL and BankTrack disseminated the attached document at the forum containing analysis and recommendations regarding financial institutons and human rights.
Desperately Seeking Sanction: Canadian Extractive Companies and their Public Partners
Article prepared for the 'Global Capital, Global Rights' workshop convened by SFU and UBC. The text discusses civil society efforts in support of Bill C-300, legislation that sought to create accountability mechanisms regarding the provision of government support to Canadian extractive companies that operate overseas.
Barrick Gold Fails to Obtain Financing for Pascua Lama
Statement by the Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts concerning Barrick Gold's failure to secure financing from Export Development Canada and the U.S. Export-Import Bank for its Pascua Lama project on the border between Chile and Argentina.
ECA-Watch urges UN to address human rights impact of export credit
ECA-Watch submission to the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises regarding the importance of including public finance on its agenda.
ECA-Watch comments on draft revision of OECD Common Approaches
The international civil society network, ECA-Watch, provides substantive input on the latest iteration of the OECD 'Common Approaches' regarding export credit agencies.
CSO Statement on UN and human rights
International civil society statement regarding business and human rights, post-Ruggie.
International CSO statement: A professional approach to selecting the IMF boss
The IMF has committed itself to ending European dominance of selection of its managing director, and introducing an open, merit-based and transparent process. This paper sets out the three key elements to ensuring a successful process next time: a focus on selecting the best candidate available; a clear, fair, and transparent process; and the legitimacy gained from the backing of a majority of countries as well as IMF voting shares.
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