The Human Rights Impact of the World Trade Organisation (Hardcover)

The Human Rights Impact of the World Trade Organisation Book Description

This book examines the impact of international trade rules on the promotion and protection of human rights, and explains why human rights are an important mechanism for assessing the social justice impact of the international trading system. The core of the book contains an in-depth analysis of the impact of international trade law rules on the protection and promotion of human rights, emphasizing the significance of the jurisdictional context in which the human rights issues arise. Coercive measures that are taken by one country to protect and promote human rights in another country are distinguished from measures taken by a country to protect and promote the human rights of its own population. The author contends that international trade law rules have utilized certain ad hoc mechanisms to deal with particularly pressing human rights concerns in the trade context, but also argues that these mechanisms do not provide systemic solutions to the inter-linkages between the two legal syste

About the Author :

James Harrison has contributed to The Human Rights Impact of the World Trade Organisation as an author. James Harrison is an experienced children's book editor and writer who has traveled extensively throughout the United States and the rest of the world.

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