Done well, Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIAs) of trade agreements can provide useful insights and help craft inclusive, sustainable trade policy. The recent SIA of the EFTA-Thailand trade agreement provides an opportunity to reflect on what works and what doesn’t.
E-commerce is touted as offering new and advantageous opportunities for women. But what do WTO e-commerce negotiations really hold for women’s rights?...
The World Bank’s recently-published report on the distributional impact of trade is welcome; all the more so that it says what we in the human rights community have long known: benefits of trade are distributed unequally, creating winners and losers.
States tend to ratify new trade agreements with little heed for their human rights obligations. Impact assessment can help ensure consistency between these two bodies of law.
This Blueprint shows that human rights-based impact assessments of trade agreements are feasible and constitute valuable tools for policy-making. Drawing on experience from previous trade agreements, it points to areas of concern from a right to health, Indigenous rights and gender equality perspective.
La négociation d'un accord commercial entre l’AELE et le Mercosur a suscité de l'inquiétude quant aux impacts de l'accord sur la forêt amazonienne et les...