Trade imbalance : the struggle to weigh human rights concerns in trade policymaking
In many countries, citizens allege that trade policies undermine specific rights such as labor rights, the right to health, or the right to political participation. However, in some countries, policy makers use trade policies to promote human rights. Although scholars, policy makers, and activists have long debated this relationship, in truth we know very little about it. This book enters this murky territory with three goals. First, it aims to provide readers with greater insights into the relationship between human rights and trade. Second, it includes the first study of how South Africa, Brazil, the United States, and the European Union coordinate trade and human rights objectives and resolve conflicts. It also looks at how human rights issues are seeping into the WTO. Finally, it provides suggestions to policy makers for making their trade and human rights policies more coherent. --PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
Print Book, English, 2008
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [UK], 2008
x, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521872560, 9780521694209, 0521872561, 0521694205
85444262
The World Trade Organization and human rights providing some power to the people, some of the time
South Africa : in the "rainbow nation," trade and human rights are anything but black and white
Brazil : creating new rules of the road
European Union : the behemoth is not a dinosaur
United states : an inconsistent sheriff at the intersection of trade and human rights