ESCR Resources
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...
Published: Nov 27 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...
Published: Nov 27 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...
Published: Nov 27 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...
Published: Nov 27 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-...
Published: Nov 27 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...
Published: Nov 22 2006 - 1:46pm
San José, Costa Rica 7 al 22 de noviembre de 1969
CONVENCIÓN AMERICANA SOBRE DERECHOS HUMANOS (Pacto de San José)
PREAMBULO
Los Estados Americanos signatarios de la presente Convención,
Reafirmando su propósito de consolidar en este Continente, dentro del cuadro de las instituciones...
Published: Nov 22 2006 - 1:45pm
I. Publicaciones relevantes a los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales:
1. Circulo de Derechos
2. Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales. Publicación del Programa de Cooperación sobre Derechos Humanos, México-Comisión Europea
3. Tesauro de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y...
Published: Nov 22 2006 - 1:23pm