Author: Ariadna Estévez
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023061261X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.
Human Rights and Free Trade in Mexico
Author: Ariadna Estévez
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023061261X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023061261X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and Western discourses.
Forced to Be Good
Author: Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801457467
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union has done the same. In addition to addressing economic issues, these agreements also regulate the protection of human rights. In Forced to Be Good, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton tells the story of the politics of such agreements and of the ways in which governments pursue market integration policies that advance their own political interests, including human rights.How and why do global norms for social justice become international regulations linked to seemingly unrelated issues, such as trade? Hafner-Burton finds that the process has been unconventional. Efforts by human rights advocates and labor unions to spread human rights ideals, for example, do not explain why American and European governments employ preferential trade agreements to protect human rights. Instead, most of the regulations protecting human rights are codified in global moral principles and laws only because they serve policymakers' interests in accumulating power or resources or solving other problems. Otherwise, demands by moral advocates are tossed aside. And, as Hafner-Burton shows, even the inclusion of human rights protections in trade agreements is no guarantee of real change, because many of the governments that sign on to fair trade regulations oppose such protections and do not intend to force their implementation.Ultimately, Hafner-Burton finds that, despite the difficulty of enforcing good regulations and the less-than-noble motives for including them, trade agreements that include human rights provisions have made a positive difference in the lives of some of the people they are intended-on paper, at least-to protect.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801457467
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union has done the same. In addition to addressing economic issues, these agreements also regulate the protection of human rights. In Forced to Be Good, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton tells the story of the politics of such agreements and of the ways in which governments pursue market integration policies that advance their own political interests, including human rights.How and why do global norms for social justice become international regulations linked to seemingly unrelated issues, such as trade? Hafner-Burton finds that the process has been unconventional. Efforts by human rights advocates and labor unions to spread human rights ideals, for example, do not explain why American and European governments employ preferential trade agreements to protect human rights. Instead, most of the regulations protecting human rights are codified in global moral principles and laws only because they serve policymakers' interests in accumulating power or resources or solving other problems. Otherwise, demands by moral advocates are tossed aside. And, as Hafner-Burton shows, even the inclusion of human rights protections in trade agreements is no guarantee of real change, because many of the governments that sign on to fair trade regulations oppose such protections and do not intend to force their implementation.Ultimately, Hafner-Burton finds that, despite the difficulty of enforcing good regulations and the less-than-noble motives for including them, trade agreements that include human rights provisions have made a positive difference in the lives of some of the people they are intended-on paper, at least-to protect.
Negotiating Free Trade Agreeements with Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico's Political and Legal Environment for Doing Business
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Human Rights in Mexico
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Economic Impact of the Mexico Free Trade Agreement
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Economic Policy, Projections, and Revenues
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Canada/Mexico/United States
Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category : Employee rights
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category : Employee rights
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Issues Relating to a Bilateral Free Trade Agreement with Mexico
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization
Author: Daniel E. Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113949080X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization provides a balanced, thoughtful discussion of the globalization of the economy and the ethical considerations inherent in the many changes it has prompted. The book's introduction maps out the philosophical foundations for constructing an ethic of globalization, taking into account both traditional and contemporary sources. These ideals are applied to four specific test cases: the ethics of investing in China, the case study of the Firestone company's presence in Liberia, free-trade and fair-trade issues pertaining to the coffee trade with Ethiopia and the use of low-wage factories in Mexico to serve the US market. The book concludes with a comprehensive discussion of how to enforce global compliance with basic human rights standards, with particular attention to stopping abuses by multinational corporations through litigation under the Alien Tort Claims Act.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113949080X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization provides a balanced, thoughtful discussion of the globalization of the economy and the ethical considerations inherent in the many changes it has prompted. The book's introduction maps out the philosophical foundations for constructing an ethic of globalization, taking into account both traditional and contemporary sources. These ideals are applied to four specific test cases: the ethics of investing in China, the case study of the Firestone company's presence in Liberia, free-trade and fair-trade issues pertaining to the coffee trade with Ethiopia and the use of low-wage factories in Mexico to serve the US market. The book concludes with a comprehensive discussion of how to enforce global compliance with basic human rights standards, with particular attention to stopping abuses by multinational corporations through litigation under the Alien Tort Claims Act.