Researcher
Email: ola AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +48 601325242
Aleksandra (Ola) specializes in human rights due diligence of the financial institutions. She cooperates with the civil society and affected communities outside Europe bringing the cases of human rights abuses to the policy makers. She holds an MA in philosophy (Szczecin University) and postgraduate studies in Global Development and Policy Management (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw).
More from Aleksandra Antonowicz-Cyglicka
Despite being the biggest class of public finance institutions operating internationally, export credit agencies (ECAs) are rarely subject to any public scrutiny. European ECAs declare the compliance with the non-binding OECD Common Approaches standards, but it’s an insufficient benchmark for evaluating compliance with the EU’s External Action obligations as stated by the relevant EU Regulation.
Change for good: why we need fair, just supply chains
April 27, 2020 | Read more
Uncertainty and crisis are not uncommon to global supply chains. The present disruption sheds light on the unsustainability of production and logistics and is an opportunity for economic players like the international financial institutions to rethink the way supply chains benefit those at every stage.
Today’s European Development Days forum in Brussels with its aspirational motto ‘building a world which leaves no one behind’ is an ironic backdrop to what is happening in the remote parts of Kenya, where a whole community is facing a threat of forced eviction by a project under appraisal of the EU’s own house bank. About a hundred people were demanded to abandon their homes by tomorrow – 20 June.
Celebrate the rights of those 5 per cent who hold 80 per cent of the planet’s biodiversity. Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Children dropping out of school, trees cut, people living in fear of another wave of forced evictions – the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) project reveals the critical absence of human rights safeguards in the EU’s overseas development financing.
