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Blame it on the WTO?: A Human Rights Critique
Sarah Joseph
2011-2013
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is often accused of, at best, not paying enough attention to human rights or, at worst, facilitating and perpetuating human rights abuses. This book weighs these criticisms and examines their validity, incorporating legal arguments as well as some economic and political science perspectives. After introducing the respective WTO and human rights regimes, and discussing their legal and normative relationship to each other, the book presents a detailed analysis of the main human rights concerns relating to the WTO. These include the alleged democratic deficit within the Organization and the impact of WTO rules on the right to health, labour rights, the right to food, and on questions of poverty and development. Given that some of the most important issues within the WTO concern its impact on poor people within developing States, the book asks whether rich States have an obligation to the people of poorer States to construct a fairer trading system that better facilitates the alleviation of poverty and development. Against this background, the book examines the current Doha round proposals as well as suggestions for reform of the WTO to make it more ‘human rights-friendly’.
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Keywords
- 20th century
- creative commons license
- Development
- Doha round
- Economic aspects
- Economics
- Economics, finance, business & management
- Foreign trade regulation
- Human rights
- human rights abuses
- human rights regimes
- International economic & trade law
- International economics
- International Human Rights Law
- international institutions
- International law
- International relations
- International trade
- labour rights
- Law
- Nonfiction
- Political aspects
- Politics & government
- Poverty
- Public International Law
- right to food
- right to health
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSN International institutions
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCL International economics::KCLT International trade and commerce
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law::LBBM Public international law: economic and trade
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law::LBBR Public international law: human rights
- World Trade Organization
- WTO
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DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_454396Editions
