International labour standards and world trade: No role for the world trade organization?

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Hughes ◽  
Rorden Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
International Labour Standards

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 LABOUR AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: TOWARDS A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LINKAGE DISCOURSE

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUKE L ARNOLD
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Title Page ◽  
The World ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
The Right

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>[</span><span>As the World Trade Organization approaches its ten-year anniversary, the long-discussed issue of linking the right to trade with the enforcement of cer- tain labour standards continues to persist. However, the discourse on the is- sue has hit a stalemate of late. In the hope of overcoming the stalemate and moving toward effective solutions on the issue, this paper explains and ex- amines four types of “conceptual differentiations” that currently underpin a significant portion of the labour linkage discourse. The “conceptual differ- entiations” examined are trade/non-trade; north/south; liberalisa- tion/protectionism; economic development/poverty; consumption/ production; universalist/relativist; WTO/ILO; and sanctions/welfare. A pol- icy proposal for further discussion on the issue is then presented, based on </span></p><p><span>a re-conceptualisation of the “conceptual differentiations” discussed</span><span>.] </span></p></div></div></div>

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.

The ILO and the Australian Contribution to the International Labour Standards Debate

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Nyland ◽  
Rob Castle
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Working Party ◽  
World Trade Organisation ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
International Labour Standards

This paper examines tbe views of the various protagonists in the Australian debate that surrounds the demand that the World Trade Organisation adopt a social clause linking workers' rights with tbe rigbt to engage in cross-border trade. We argue that the rights-trade question is not solely a Northern/Southern Hemisphere issue but is also a manifestation of the conflict that exists between the rights of capital and the rights of labour. We begin by outlining the background to the international labour rights debate, then proceed to identify the views of the various Australian protagonists by examining the report of the Tripartite Working Party on labour standards (the Duffy Report) released in March 1996. We conclude that while the federal government has made some compromises in this debate, it needs to build on these initiatives if it is to convince the international community that it is truly supportive of the basic rights of labour.

Russian Policy of Agriculture Support and the Necessity of Its Modification after WTO Accession

2012 ◽  
pp. 132-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Uzun
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Wto Accession ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Agriculture Support

The article deals with the features of the Russian policy of agriculture support in comparison with the EU and the US policies. Comparative analysis is held considering the scales and levels of collective agriculture support, sources of supporting means, levels and mechanisms of support of agricultural production manufacturers, its consumers, agrarian infrastructure establishments, manufacturers and consumers of each of the principal types of agriculture production. The author makes an attempt to estimate the consequences of Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization based on a hypothesis that this will result in unification of the manufacturers and consumers’ protection levels in Russia with the countries that have long been WTO members.

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.

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