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.
Human rights economics
Human Rights Impact Assessment of the planned EFTA-Mercosur trade agreement
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.