Banca Armada Presentation

1. Banca Armada
Ainhoa Díaz Borges
Centre Delàs d'Estudis per la Pau – Justícia i Pau

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

6. Types of impact

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.

8. Thank you very much for your attention