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Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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Targeting Demand: A New Approach To Curbing Human Trafficking In The United States, Morgan Brown Jan 2012

Targeting Demand: A New Approach To Curbing Human Trafficking In The United States, Morgan Brown

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No abstract provided.


Beyond Labor Rights: Which Core Human Rights Must Regional Trade Agreements Protect?, Stephen Joseph Powell, Trisha Low Jan 2012

Beyond Labor Rights: Which Core Human Rights Must Regional Trade Agreements Protect?, Stephen Joseph Powell, Trisha Low

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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 …


Labor Standards In Recent U.S. Trade Agreements, William (Bud) Clatanoff Jan 2005

Labor Standards In Recent U.S. Trade Agreements, William (Bud) Clatanoff

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No abstract provided.


Union Responses To The Challenges Of An Increasingly Globalized Economy, Stephen B. Moldof Jan 2005

Union Responses To The Challenges Of An Increasingly Globalized Economy, Stephen B. Moldof

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No abstract provided.


An Essential Element Of Fair Trade And Sustainable Development In The Ftaa Is An Enforceable Social Clause, Terry Collingsworth Jan 2001

An Essential Element Of Fair Trade And Sustainable Development In The Ftaa Is An Enforceable Social Clause, Terry Collingsworth

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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 Jan 2001

Mapping The Landscape: Perspectives On The Implementation Of Free Trade Agreements, F. Amanda Debusk

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No abstract provided.