Ressources DESC
Las agencias de crédito a la exportación (ECA, por su nombre en inglés) utilizan fondos públicos o una mezcla de fondos privados y públicos, para otorgar préstamos, garantías y seguros para apoyar inversiones en el extranjero y exportaciones de corporaciones nacionales. La mayoría de los países...
Publié: 27 nov 2006 - 9:13pm
The ECGD and the Human Rights Act (Kerim Yildiz, Kurdish Human Rights Project, and Nicholas Hildyard, The Corner House; June 2004) is a valuable analysis of the human rights responsibilities of the UK for its export credit agency, ECGD, under the European Convention on Human Rights and its own...
Publié: 27 nov 2006 - 2:57pm
Risk, Responsibility & Human Rights: Taking a Rights-based Approach to Trade & Project Finance is a report from a meeting on the topic in May 2004. The paper is an initial attempt at moving beyond the theoretical debates about human rights and investment, to making some initial suggestions...
Publié: 27 nov 2006 - 2:52pm
Race to the Bottom, Take 2 includes nine case studies prepared by members of ECA-Watch. The report also outlines major ECA issues with corresponding proposals. Overall, the report presents a civil society proposal for reforming the OECD Common Approaches on Environment and supports the proposal...
Publié: 27 nov 2006 - 2:37pm
The Berne Union (or the International Union of Credit and Investment Insurers) began in 1938 in Switzerland; however, together with its Prague Club of emerging ECAs, it now includes more than seventy ECAs, with a Secretariat based in London. The Berne Union promotes common principles for export...
Publié: 27 nov 2006 - 2:07pm
The OECD Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees develops common policies on export credit terms and conditions, including insurance rates. These terms and conditions are regulated by the 'Arrangement,' referred to as a "Gentleman's Agreement" on the OECD website and first agreed in...
Publié: 27 nov 2006 - 2:00pm
What are Export Credit Agencies and how do they impact upon human rights? Export credit agencies (ECAs) use public funds or a combination of public and private funds to provide loans, guarantees, and insurance in support of overseas investment and exports by domestic corporations. Most OECD-...
Publié: 27 nov 2006 - 1:13pm
I. Documentos regionales de los derechos humanos:
1. Declaración Americana de los Derechos y Deberes del Hombre
2. Convención Americana Sobre Derechos Humanos Suscrita en la Conferencia
Especializada Interamericana Sobre Derechos Humanos
(a): Protocolo Adicional a la Convención...
Publié: 22 nov 2006 - 1:46pm