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Human Rights Trade and Development in ACP-EU
Partnership. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 296
This book,relying on the human rights clause in the
ACP-EU Partnership Agreement argues that ACP
countries, contrary to the widely held view, can
employ human rights as an impartial tool in their
trade relations with the EU and its member states.
It demonstrates that for sustainable development to
be achieved within the realm of trade, the
realisation of human rights should be seen as its
central objective and the contracting parties should
give due regard to this in their formulation and
implementation of trade rules. For ACP countries,
this would entitle them to resist market opening
demands that would prevent them from realising human
rights for their people and for the EU and its
member states an obligation of international
assistance and cooperation to aid the ACP countries
in their efforts to participate beneficially in the
world trading system, but in so doing should refrain
from coercing them to embrace rights-limiting trade
obligations. The analysis in this book should be
useful to Human Rights and Trade Law Practitioners,
Government Trade negotiators, persons interested in
how trade rules may impact on sustainable
development.
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