2. Banca Armada campaign
This initiative promote awareness and reporting of financial
institutions that participate in military industries or
seriously affect the lives of communities and peoples, by
requiring genuine respect for human rights and the
environment
3. Types of impact
Corporate:
Corporate Social Responsability (CSR): International Labour
Organization (Genève, 2007), European Parliament Resolution
(march 13, 2007)
Arms financing ways: participation as shareholders, financing
exportation, the issuance of bonds and promissory notes, loans
and credits to arms manufacturers
Participacion in shareholders banks meetings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCkUH1yb04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9xesg7tW4c
4. Types of impact
Political:
The campaign aims are to inform citizens about financial
institutions that invest in the production of cluster munitions,
encourage the financial institutions to articulate clearer lines of
action on ethical investments for these weapons and pressure
governments to adopt legislation prohibiting investment in them
http://www.stopinversionesexplosivas.org/
5. Types of impact
Social:
Banktrack: global network of civil society groups tracking the
operations and investments of private sector banks (commercial
banks) and their effect on people and the planet. Banca Armada
campaign is involved in this project.
http://www.banktrack.org/
Campaign websites:
http://www.bancaarmada.org/
http://bbvasinarmas.org/index.php?lang=es
http://bancosantandersinarmas.org/index.php?lang=es
http://caixabanksinarmas.org/
Armed Banking’s awareness campaign materials:
http://www.bancaarmada.org/index.php/es/informes
http://www.centredelas.org/images/stories/campanyes_grans/car
tilla_banca_armada_cas.pdf
7. Ultimate aims
Politics: banks will stop investing in arms only if this law
states prohibit
Corporations: banks take certain measures and policies
limiting investment in arms if asked civil society
Society: it’s necessary to generate a critical attitude to
banks investments in order to promote responsible and
critical consumption, and we must require that the bank
complies with our values of promoting an alternative
economy
Above all, disarmament is a way that we must
never give up, because we know that the less
weapons, the less violence, killing and maiming
will be in the world.