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The Disparate Treatment Of Rights In Trade, Desiree Leclercq
The Disparate Treatment Of Rights In Trade, Desiree Leclercq
Scholarly Works
Rights advocates are increasingly urging U.S. trade negotiators to include new binding and sanctionable provisions that would protect human rights, women’s rights, and gender equality. Their efforts are understandable. Trade agreements have significant advantages as a process for advancing global rights. Even though Congress and the Executive incorporate global environmental standards and labor rights in U.S. trade agreements, they have refused to incorporate gender rights and broader human rights. The rationale behind the United States’ disparate treatment of rights in trade has received almost no scholarly attention. That is a mistake.
Using labor rights as a case study, this Article …
Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas
Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas
Chantal Thomas
No abstract provided.
Ilo Labor Standards And Trade Agreements: A Case For Consistency, Desiree Leclercq, Jordi Agusti-Panareda, Franz Christian Ebert
Ilo Labor Standards And Trade Agreements: A Case For Consistency, Desiree Leclercq, Jordi Agusti-Panareda, Franz Christian Ebert
Scholarly Works
A growing number of trade agreements have taken an important step toward ensuring consistency by referring to - and hence incorporating the legal content of - ILO instruments. On its face, this uniform reference suggests an increasing alignment between the ILO's international labor standards system and the labor provisions included in the various trade agreements. The application of these references in the decentralized trade context needs to be considered carefully, however, as there is a risk of inconsistent practices between agreements.
Beyond Labor Rights: Which Core Human Rights Must Regional Trade Agreements Protect?, Stephen Joseph Powell, Trisha Low
Beyond Labor Rights: Which Core Human Rights Must Regional Trade Agreements Protect?, Stephen Joseph Powell, Trisha Low
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
As World Trade Organization (“WTO”) Members relentlessly pursue new regional trade agreements to achieve even faster economic growth than the extraordinary numbers posted by global trade rules, the smaller number of parties and their greater cultural affinity have led negotiators to address the intersection of trade and human rights to an extent unparalleled in the culturally disparate and near-unmanageable, 150-plus member WTO itself. These new provisions have used trade’s huge power to improve worker rights, secure environmental protections, and make initial inroads toward defending indigenous populations from trade’s adverse effects. Employing the perspectives both of trade negotiators and students of …
Table 2. International Standards Of Child Labor In Agriculture, Irina Feofanova
Table 2. International Standards Of Child Labor In Agriculture, Irina Feofanova
Irina Feofanova
APPENDICES for COMBATING OF CHILD LABOR IN AGRICULTURE: CRITICISM OF EXISTING STANDARDS AND ROLE OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS.
Labor Standards In Recent U.S. Trade Agreements, William (Bud) Clatanoff
Labor Standards In Recent U.S. Trade Agreements, William (Bud) Clatanoff
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
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Union Responses To The Challenges Of An Increasingly Globalized Economy, Stephen B. Moldof
Union Responses To The Challenges Of An Increasingly Globalized Economy, Stephen B. Moldof
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
No abstract provided.
Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas
Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The "Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
The "Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
An Essential Element Of Fair Trade And Sustainable Development In The Ftaa Is An Enforceable Social Clause, Terry Collingsworth
An Essential Element Of Fair Trade And Sustainable Development In The Ftaa Is An Enforceable Social Clause, Terry Collingsworth
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
Multinational companies (“MNCs”) and governments that are fantasizing about a Free Trade Area of the Americas (“FTAA”) should accept the reality that the FTAA is not politically viable for the time being unless the issues of labor rights and other social conditions are addressed in a manner demonstrating that these rights are consistent with commercial rights that are protected in careful detail in many pages of the draft FTAA agreement.
Mapping The Landscape: Perspectives On The Implementation Of Free Trade Agreements, F. Amanda Debusk
Mapping The Landscape: Perspectives On The Implementation Of Free Trade Agreements, F. Amanda Debusk
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
No abstract provided.