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This table shows all complaints filed at OECD National Contact Points against financial institutions, of which we are aware (last updated February 2024). If you see any cases missing, please contact us. For more details see the links to OECDWatch's case database. More information on BankTrack's work in relation to the OECD Guidelines can be found here, and more context around closed complaints filed against commercial banks can be found here.
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Title |
Issue |
Date filed |
Status |
| Greenpeace Luxembourg vs. Fonds de Compensation de la Sécurité sociale SICAV FIS | Luxembourg pension fund FDC SICAV FIS’s irresponsible investment strategy | 11 March 2024 | Filed |
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The Philippine Movement for Climate Justice et al. vs. Standard Chartered |
Standard Chartered’s contribution to human rights harms caused by coal power plants in the Philippines |
26 February 2024 |
Filed |
| Inclusive Development International et al vs. MSCI, FTSE Russell, S&P DJI Netherlands and S&P Dow Jones Indices |
‘ESG’ indexes’ irresponsible investments in companies linked to gross human rights abuses by Myanmar’s military |
12 February 2024 | Filed |
| BankTrack et al., vs. HSBC, Swiss National Bank, UBS Group, and Barclays | Four Swiss and UK banks’ links to human right impacts through their investments in US private prison operators | 16 January 2024 | Filed |
| Friends of the Earth US vs. Export-Import Bank of the United States | US EXIM’s fossil fuel financing contrary to the Paris Agreement | 4 December 2023 | Filed |
| PITEE Consumer Protection Association for Financial Services vs. Erste Group Bank AG and Raiffeisen Bank International AG | Banks’ breaches of the Human Rights and Consumer Interests chapter | 14 April 2023 | Rejected |
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Inclusive Development International et al. vs. Marsh
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Marsh’s role as insurance broker for the construction phase of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline |
7 February 2023 | Filed |
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Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights et al. vs. Oikocredit |
Oikocredit’s inadequate due diligence on its investments in Cambodia’s microfinance sector |
12 December 2022 | Under review |
| Society for Threatened Peoples vs. UBS | UBS' business relationship with Hikvision | 22 June 2020 | Concluded, no resolution |
| Former employees of Sominki vs. Gramercy Funds Management | Severance pay for ex-mining workers in DRC | 11 January 2021 | Rejected |
| UK Export Finance fails climate commitments, disclosures | 16 March 2020 | Rejected | |
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ANZ’s climate impacts breach Enviro, Discl., Cons. Prot. |
30 January 2020 |
Concluded, no resolution |
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Credit Suisse contribution to harms at DAPL |
30 January 2020 |
Rejected |
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| Society for Threatened Peoples Switzerland vs. BKW Group | BKW Energie AG’s investment in wind production on Sami territory, Norway | 16 January 2020 | Agreement |
| KTNC Watch et al vs. KEXIM |
Financial support of harmful palm oil production practices by POSCO in Indonesia |
12 December 2019 | Rejected |
| Milieudefensie et al vs. ING | ING Palm financing contributes to violations | 5 July 2019 | Concluded, no resolution |
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Dam collapse in Laos involving Kexim |
17 June 2019 |
Rejected |
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Violations of FPIC, consultation at Philippine Jalaur dam |
15 October 2018 |
Rejected |
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Japanese banks fund coal-fired power in Vietnam |
18 September 2018 |
Filed |
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Banks violating arms embargo during apartheid South Africa |
24 April 2018 |
Rejected |
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Banks violating arms embargo during apartheid South Africa |
24 April 2018 |
Rejected |
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ING bank violation of OECD Guidelines on climate change |
8 May 2017 |
Agreement |
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Risks associated with North Dakota Access Pipeline in USA |
24 April 2017 |
Agreement |
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Inclusive Development International and Equitable Cambodia vs ANZ |
Financial services provided to Phnom Penh Sugar Company |
6 October 2014 |
Concluded |
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Controversial Rabobank investment in palm oil in Indonesia |
26 June 2014 |
Concluded |
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Lok Shakti Abhiyan et.al vs Government Pension Fund - Global |
POSCO's involvement in HR and environmental impact in India |
9 October 2012 |
Concluded |
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POSCO's involvement in HR and environmental impact in India |
9 October 2012 |
Concluded |
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Shell & 3 UK banks link with violations Sakhalin II complex |
31 July 2012 |
Rejected |
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Shell & 3 UK banks link with violations Sakhalin II complex |
31 July 2012 |
Rejected |
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Shell & 3 UK banks link with violations Sakhalin II complex |
31 July 2012 |
Rejected |
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ANZ Bank's facilitation of destructive forestry in PNG |
1 October 2007 |
Rejected |
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Banco del Trabajo's labour rights abuses in Peru |
25 April 2007 |
Closed |
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ANZ Bank's facilitation of destructive forestry in PNG |
24 August 2006 |
Rejected |
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Botnia's Orion pulp mill project in Uruguay |
28 June 2006 |
Concluded |
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Botnia's Orion pulp mill project in Uruguay |
8 June 2006 |
Rejected |
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BTC oil pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia & Turkey |
9 May 2004 |
Blocked |
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BTC oil pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia & Turkey |
9 May 2004 |
Blocked |
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BTC oil pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia & Turkey |
9 May 2004 |
Blocked |
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West LB financing of oil pipeline in Ecuador |
15 May 2003 |
Rejected |
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