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Organization Project
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| Project visible to | everybody |
| Name | Human Rights and Trade Partnership Project |
| Organization | Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise - Washington Center |
| Location | Washington DC, USA |
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| End date | ongoing |
| Project overview | Policymakers and pundits often claim that trade promotes human rights. However, there is little evidence of a direct link between expanded trade and human rights. Policymakers often dont know how to achieve both objectives. Finally, the architects of the international human rights system and the GATT/now WTO did not devise policies, procedures or rules to govern how trade objectives and human rights goals might be integrated or how these institutions might collaborate. This project is designed to develop suggestions for how policymakers can encourage both important policy goals by building a greater understanding of:
The relationship between trade liberalization and human rights protection.
Conflicts between trade and human rights
What governments are doing to promote trade and human rights and if and how they assess the human rights impact of trade liberalization.
How confusing signals between trade liberalization and market forces affect market actors
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| Issue areas | trade and trade-related issues
global governance, institutions, institutional reform
human, social and cultural rights
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