03284oam 2200433 450 991014186010332120230621141104.00-19-100398-0(CKB)2670000000416227(EXLCZ)99267000000041622720131001h20132011 fy 0engurmn#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBlame it on the WTO? a human rights critique /Sarah JosephOxford, England :Oxford University Press,2013.©20111 online resource (327 pages) illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)Print version: Joseph, Sarah (Sarah Louise). Blame it on the WTO? Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199565894 (DLC) 2011920645 (OCoLC)663438456 Includes bibliographical references and index.Table of cases --Table of conventions, declarations, and other instruments --Abbreviations --Introduction --1 Introducing the WTO and international human rights law regimes --2 Relationship between the WTO and international human rights law --3 Democratic deficit and the WTO --4 ‘Human rights’ restrictions on trade --5 The WTO, poverty, and development --6 The WTO and the right to food --7 TRIPS and the right to health --8 Extraterritorial human rights duties --9 WTO reform, the Doha Round, and other free trade initiatives --10 Conclusion --Bibliography --Index.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’.Human rightsForeign trade regulationPolitical aspectsHuman rightsEconomic aspectsForeign trade regulationHuman rights.Foreign trade regulationPolitical aspects.Human rightsEconomic aspects.Foreign trade regulation.341.48Joseph Sarah257247UkMaJRUBOOK9910141860103321Blame it on the WTO2293902UNINA