scholarly journals Extraterritoriality and public procurement regulation in the context of global supply chains’ governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Anna Corvaglia ◽  
Kevin Li
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
Domestic Regulation

With the globalisation of supply chains, the respect for human rights and labour standards in procurement practices has become a crucial priority also in the domestic regulation of public procurement. This paper focuses on two specific characteristics of the use of public procurement regulation for the enforcement of human rights and labour standards: its extraterritorial effects on companies and firms across different jurisdictions and its reliance on private certifications and labels. Both of these new aspects are evident within the new 2014 EU Procurement Directives, which includes a number of far-reaching regulatory features that facilitate the monitoring of the respect for human rights and labour standards of contractors and subcontractors across borders. However, this new dimension of public procurement has the potential to create tension within the framework of multilateral trade governance, specifically, the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade regime.

scholarly journals Human Rights and Labour Standards from the Public Health Perspective in the World Trade Organization: Challenges and Possible Solutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Karina Palkova ◽  
Giga Abuseridze
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Labour Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
Organization Policy

This study investigates the effects of the interaction between labor standards and human rights that has become a key issue in the World Trade organization. Policy makers gradually developed new rules to achieve both trade and human rights objectives. England signed treaties with the U.S., Portugal, Denmark and Sweden to ban trade in slaves ect. The trade labour linkage has a long history. It has become one of the most contentious contemporary issues in trade and labour policy circles and debates.

Exploring the World Trade Organisation's Trade and Environment/Public Health Jurisprudence as a Model for Incorporating a Trade–Labour Linkage into the Organisation's Multilateral Trade Regime: Should African Countries Accept a Policy Shift?

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Tapiwa V. Warikandwa ◽  
Patrick C. Osode
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Trade ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Trade Regime ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
Appellate Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
The Impact

The incorporation of a trade-labour (standards) linkage into the multilateral trade regime of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been persistently opposed by developing countries, including those in Africa, on the grounds that it has the potential to weaken their competitive advantage. For that reason, low levels of compliance with core labour standards have been viewed as acceptable by African countries. However, with the impact of WTO agreements growing increasingly broader and deeper for the weaker and vulnerable economies of developing countries, the jurisprudence developed by the WTO Panels and Appellate Body regarding a trade-environment/public health linkage has the potential to address the concerns of developing countries regarding the potential negative effects of a trade-labour linkage. This article argues that the pertinent WTO Panel and Appellate Body decisions could advance the prospects of establishing a linkage of global trade participation to labour standards without any harm befalling developing countries.

Common but Differentiated Debates: Environment, Labour and the World Trade Organization

1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halina Ward
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Development ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
World Conference ◽  
World Summit ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Environment And Development

In June 1992 the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) took place in Rio de Janeiro; 1993 was the year of the World Conference on Human Rights, 1994 the year of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development, and in March 1995 it was the turn of the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen.

The World Trade Organization and Human Rights

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Joseph ◽  
David Kinley ◽  
Jeff Waincymer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The World

One World

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Binger
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Duties

AbstractThe following response to the essays by Dietrich, Kesselring and Schefczyk discusses impartiality and foundations of special duties; utilitarianism, foreign aid, NGOs and human rights; and ethical aspects of free trade and the World Trade Organization.

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