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<div align="center"><font size=2><i>The MIT Program on Human Rights and
Justice invites you to:<br><br>
</i></font><font color="#FF0000"><b>Human Rights and International
Investments <br>
Cracking the Toughest IFI Nut of All: Export Credit Agencies<br>
</font><h1><font size=2><b>Gabrielle Watson, Research Fellow,
</b></font></h1><font size=2><b>MIT Program on Human Rights and
Justice<br><br>
Thursday February 12, 2004<br>
4:30-6:00 p.m.<br>
E38-615, 292 Main Street<br><br>
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What will it take to get the most secretive and least accountable of all
International Financial Institutions to take human rights into account?
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Collectively, Export Credit Agencies, like the Ex-Im Bank, are the
largest source of international financial flows, accounting for 5 times
the financial flows of all bilateral and multilateral aid combined, and
around half of all energy-related investments in the developing world.
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Large-scale major infrastructure projects they support are
notorious for human rights and environmental abuses. Yet they are little
known, and would like to keep it that way. Come hear about ECAs and how
to hold them accountable to International Human Rights Law.
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Susan Frick<br>
Program Assistant<br>
Program on Human Rights and Justice<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
E38-277, 292 Main Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
Tel: 617 258 7614<br>
Fax: 617 452 3962<br>
Email: fricks@mit.edu<br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/phrj" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/phrj</a><br>
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