[Mitai-announce] Human Rights and International Investments- Thurs 2/12

[Susan Frick]

The MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice invites you to:

Human Rights and International Investments
Cracking the Toughest IFI Nut of All: Export Credit Agencies

Gabrielle Watson, Research Fellow,

MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice

Thursday February 12, 2004
4:30-6:00 p.m.
E38-615, 292 Main Street

What will it take to get the most secretive and least accountable of all 
International Financial Institutions to take human rights into account?

  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.

  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.


Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
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