Actors, Documents, Contacts

Mining

• FIAN (FoodFirst Information and Action Network)
• CEE Bankwatch Network
• Global Witness 
• Mines and Communities 
• Halifax Initiative 
• Friends of the Earth International 
• Misereor 
• Mineral Policy Institute 
• Fatal Transactions 
• Brainforest 
• Oxfam Australia 
• War on Want 
• Kimberley Process

Documents

• "European Investment bank: six years financing the plundering of Africa", November 2007, Friends of the Earth France
• Australian mining Ombudsman
• "Fanning the Flames – The role of British mining companies in conflict and the violation of human rights" War on Want 
• "From conflict resources to sustainable development" 2008
• Mining consolidation, September 2008, Financial Times looks at the top 50 mining deals
• “Digging in corruption” global witness, July 2007
• "Complaint against Afrimex (UK) Ltd under the Specific Instance Procedure of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises" global witness, February 2007
• Development-Zambia: Sharing the Copper Windfall, by Danstan Kaunda, 2008, IPS News
• "From Money to Metals", regularly-updated database, by Roger Moody, August 2009
• Report on the dangers and potential envrionmental damages of the Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh (pdf), Roger Moody, Nostromo Research, November 12, 2008
• Mining situation in the Philippines, actors and financiers (pdf), By Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment Defend Patrimony! Alliance, September 2008
  
  

Oil and Gas

• Global Witness 
• CEE Bankwatch Network
• PLATFORM 
• Friends of the Earth International 
• Misereor 
• Greenpeace 
• Oil Change International 
• Fatal Transactions 
• Pacific Environment
• Publish What You Pay
• Voluntary Principles on security and human rights

Documents

• "Environmental Standards for operations of oil and gas companies operating in Russia“ 2005
• "Kashagan oil field development" December 2007
• "Principles for the conduct of company operations within the oil and gas industry with particular emphasis on ecologically and socially sensitive areas" (pdf), a discussion paper by Brot fuer die Welt
  
  

Forests

• World Rainforest Movement
• Forest Peoples Programme 
• WWF 
• Friends of the Earth International 
• Greenpeace 
• Fatal Transactions 
• Fern 
• Global Forest Watch 
• Amazon Watch 
• Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) 
• Rainforest Action Network  

Documents

• “Banks, Pulp and People – A Primer on Upcoming International Pulp Projects” June 2007
• “Carving up the Congo” April 2007
  
  

Human Rights

• Business and Human Rights Resource Center 
• Amnesty international 
• The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights and business project 
• Action Alert’s Red flags project

Documents

• "A Community Guide to the International Finance Corporation's Performance Standard 7 on Indigenous Peoples (PS7)" (pdf), October 2008, Clear guide explaining what to do if a company, with a loan from the IFC, is planning to develop projects near a community's customary lands
• Online portal: profiling human rights lawsuits against companies 
• “Transnational Corporations on Trial” (pdf), Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung 2008
  
  

Complaints

• Bankwatch’s Citizens’ guide to European complaint mechanisms
  
  

Private and Public Banks

• BankTrack
• Center for Human Rights and Environment – CEDHA
• Mineral Policy Institute
• Netwerk Vlaanderen
• Amigos da Terra - Amazonia Brasileira 
• Les Amis de la Terre - FoE France 
• Urgewald
• World Economy, Ecology and Development - WEED 
• Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale 
• Friends of the Earth Netherlands – Milieudefensie 
• SETEM
• Berne Declaration
• PLATFORM
• WWF-UK
• Fair Finance Watch
• Friends of the Earth - FoE US
• International Rivers
• Pacific Environment
• Rainforest Action Network
• World Information Service on Energy 
• Center for Research on Multinational Corporations
• World Resources Institute 
• The Corner House 
• Profundo 

Documents

• "Bank to the Future", November 2008
• Collevecchio Declaration
• “The dos and don’ts of Sustainable Banking”
• “The International Finance Corporation’s Performance Standards and the Equator Principles: Respecting Human Rights and remedying violations?” (section „banktrack on human rights“)
• “Mind the Gap” (pdf) December 2007 by BankTrack 
• “Time to Go Green” (pdf) May 2007 by Friends of the Earth US and BankTrack 
• “Towards Sustainable Development: Reform and (the) Future of China's Banking Industry“
• “German financial institutions and oil and gas in Africa and the former Soviet Union” Dezember 2007 
• “Mined U: Financing of new uranium mines” March 2008
• Civil society letter to banks on Phulbari August 2008
• “Banks, Pulp and People – A Primer on Upcoming International Pulp Projects” June 2007 
• “The new great walls: a guide to China’s Overseas Dam Industry” July 2008
• Research UBS CS Oil Gas Mining (pdf), research paper by Jan Willem van Gelder, February 2005
• "Solidly Swiss Light" (pdf), a report on Credit Suisse's and UBS' involvement in the global oil, mining and gas industry
  
  

World Bank Group

• Office of Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO)
• Publish What You Pay
• IFIwatchnet: gives a vast overview of organisations worldwide working on financial institutions 
• Center for Environment and Development Cameroon  
• Platform UK 
• Global Witness

Documents

• “Quick Reference Guide” to the World Bank Safeguards 
• “Transparency Charter for International Financial Institutions” 
• “One step forward, one step back” Halifax Initiative, May 2006
• “Striking a Better Balance”
• “Grounded in Washington”
• “The World Bank Group, the Extractive Industries Review and Governance: Evaluating the Bank Group’s implementation of its commitments” January 2006, Environmental Defense Fund and Bank Information Center
• “Poverty, climate and energy: the case against oil aid”, June 2008, Friends of the Earth International; Oil Cange International; World Environment, Ecology and Development and Jubilee South – ampdd 
• Documents on the CAO complaint on the Marlin Gold and Silver Mine in Guatemala
• Documents on the CAO complaint on the Yanacocha Gold Mine in Peru
• Documents on the CAO complaint on Karachaganak Oil Field in Kazakhstan
• “Broken Promises” report on Chad Cameroon oil pipeline, Friends of the Earth International, 2001 (pdf) 
• “Access to Justice from Local Village to Global Boardroom – An Experience in International Accountability” by Korinna Horta, Delphine Djiraibe, Samuel Nguiffo , September 2004 
• “The Chad-Cameroon oil & pipeline project – A project non-completion report” by Korinna Horta, Delphine Djiraibe, Samuel Nguiffo, April 2007 
• “Carving up the Congo”
• “A Community Guide to the International Finance Corporation's Performance Standard 7 on Indigenous Peoples (PS7)" (pdf), Clear guide explaining what to do if a company, with a loan from the IFC, is planning to develop projects near a community's customary lands
• “Sustainable development or business as usual? A critical evaluation of the IFC-funded Lanco Amarkantak Thermal Power Station Project in Chhattisgarh (India)" (pdf), Liam Taylor and Devjit Nandi, September 2008
• "The World Bank, Climate Change and Energy", October 2008, Halifax Initiative Coalition
  
  

European Investment Bank

• Counter Balance Challenging the European Investment Bank  
• CEE Bankwatch Network 
• Les Amis de la Terre 
• Urgewald  
• WEED (World, Economy, Ecology & Development) 
• Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale (CRBM) 
• BothEnds 
• Bretton Woods Project

Documents

• “Citizens’ guide to the European Investment Bank” April 2008, Counter Balance
• “European Investment bank: six years financing the plundering of Africa”, November 2007, Friends of the Earth France
• “European Investment Bank: Promoting sustainable development ‘where appropriate’”, November 2007
  
  

Regional Development Banks

• Bank Information Center 
• Both Ends
• Environmental Defense Fund
• International Rivers 
• Pacific Environment
• CEE Bankwatch Network
• The NGO Forum on ADB
• ADB Accountability Mechanism
• EBRD Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRM)
• Consultation and Compliance Review Mechanism (CCRM)
• Compliance Review and Mediation Unit (CRMU)

Documents

• "Examining the African Development Bank: a primer for NGOs“ May 2007
  
  

Export Credit Agencies

• ECA-Watch network
• Halifax Initiative 
• Environmental Defense Fund 
• Friends of the Earth: http://www.foe.org/, http://www.foei.org/en/campaigns/finance, http://www.amisdelaterre.org/, http://www.foejapan.org/en/aid/index.html 
• Campagna per la riforma della Banca Mondiale 
• WWF UK
• Fern
• Pacific Environment 
• The Cornerhouse

Documents

• “Exporting destruction – Export credits, illegal logging and deforestation” Fern, May 2008 
• “OECD Recommendation on Common Approaches on the Environment and Officially Supported Export Credits” 
• “Guidelines for Environmental and Social Impact Assessments of the China Export and Import Bank’s (China EXIM Bank) Loan Projects”
• “New Financiers and the Environment” International Rivers, May 2008
• “Action Statement on Bribery and Officially supported export credits” OECD 2006
• “Export Credit Agencies and the International Law of Human Rights”  January 2008
• “Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights”
• "Accessing environmental information in and from the European Community – A practical guide to your right to know“ Fern November 2007
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries, report of the Advisory Group, March 2007 (pdf)
• “Kashagan oil field development” December 2007
  
  

Hedge Funds

• The Corner House
• Environmental Defense Fund 
• World Economy, Ecology and Development

Documents

• "A (Crumbling) Wall of Money" (pdf) by Nicholas Hildyard, Cornerhouse, October 2008
• "Alternative Investmenst and Secrecy Jurisdictions: Envrionmental, Social and Governance issues in the Context of the Financial Crisis" (pdf) Stephanie Fried, Environmental Defense Fund, October 2008
• "Superstars in the emperor's new clothes: Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds - What is at stake?" (pdf) Peter Wahl, WEED, May 2008
  
  

Private Equity

• The Corner House
• Environmental Defense Fund 
• World Economy, Ecology and Development

Documents

• "A (Crumbling) Wall of Money" (pdf) by Nicholas Hildyard, Cornerhouse, October 2008
• "Alternative Investmenst and Secrecy Jurisdictions: Envrionmental, Social and Governance issues in the Context of the Financial Crisis" (pdf) Stephanie Fried, Environmental Defense Fund, October 2008
• "Superstars in the emperor's new clothes: Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds - What is at stake?" (pdf) Peter Wahl, WEED, May 2008
  

Sovereign Wealth Funds

• The Government Pension Fund - Global
• Ethical Guidelines for the Government Pension Fund - Global (pdf)
• Disclosure of Voting Records for 2007
• NBIM Investor Expectations on Children's Rights (pdf)
• Sovereign Wealth Funds as Serious Financial Investors
• Dealing with new actors in the financial markets, such as sovereign wealth funds
• Recommendations of Council on Ethics for the Government Pension Fund on the exclusion of Vedanta Resources and its subsidiaries (pdf)
• Nostromo Research and the India Resource Centre, Vedanta Resources plc Counter Report 2005: "Ravages through India" (pdf)
• Norway's oil riches and the Dongria Kondh
• ‘Vedanta is destroying us for profit’
• War on Want report, “Fanning the Flames: The role of British mining companies in conflict and the violation of human rights”
• "Vedanta Cares?: Busting the myths about Vedanta’s operation in Lanjigarh, India" (pdf)
  
  

Corporations

• OECD Watch
• Business and Human Rights Resource Center
• The Danish Institute for Human Rights - The Human Rights and Business Project 

Documents

• Guide to the OECD Guidelines for Multinationals Enterprises' Complaint Procedure, OECD Watch 2006
• Online Portal: Profiling Human Rights Lawsuits against Companies