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Article

1 Jan 2008

Author:
Karyn Keenan, Halifax Initiative

[PDF] Export Credit Agencies and the International Law of Human Rights

This paper was prepared to inform the mandate of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights... This paper examines international human rights law and officially-supported export credit agencies. It argues that under international law, specifically the principles of‘state responsibility, the acts and omissions of export credit agencies are attributable to their states... Moreover, the paper argues that through the operations of their export credit agencies, home states can be found complicit in the human rights violations of host governments. Finally, the paper provides recommendations for home states in the area of officially-supported export credit agencies and international human rights. [Note from the Special Representative (SRSG): "The SRSG is grateful to the Halifax Initiative for contributing to the developing discourse on the issue of export credit agencies and human rights. This report will be helpful to the SRSG as he develops his views and recommendations for consideration by the Human Rights Council."]