New research finds inadequate reporting on human rights impacts, and failure to establish mechanisms to allow complaints. As the world’s largest gathering on business and human rights takes place in Geneva, new research from BankTrack has found that global banks are making slow progress in implementing human rights standards, and are failing to live up […]
Representantes de diversas organizações da sociedade civil participaram na semana passada, entre os dias 29 e 31, do treinamento “Usando o Setor Financeiro como Alavanca de Mudanças”, promovido pelo BankTrack e Eco-Finanças, programa da Amigos da Terra – Amazônia Brasileira. O objetivo do evento era fornecer aos participantes ferramentas e estrategias sobre como influenciar as políticas […]
Tiny steps forward, where bold moves are required BankTrack, the international NGO network monitoring investment decisions and sustainability commitments of large international banks, today submitted its comments on the Equator Principles III draft text (EPIII) [1]. The submission followed a meeting in London on September 25 where BankTrack shared its view on EPIII with the […]
The effects of the 2008 financial crisis were still reverberating throughout the global economy, with unemployment continuing to plague many countries. Europe in particular is experiencing a debt crisis that is leading to the spread of austerity measures across the continent. Global regulators persisted in dragging their feet and doing little to hold the financial […]