DECRG (Development Economics Research Group), International Trade Department,
World Bank
International Labour Organization, Washington Office
The Financial Times
invite you to a book launch of a recent Cambridge University Press publication
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| TRADE IMBALANCE | |
| The Struggle to | |
| Weigh Human | |
| Rights Concerns | |
| in Trade | |
| Policymaking | |
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| by Susan Ariel | |
| Aaronson, Jamie | |
| M. Zimmerman | |
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| (Embedded image | Trade is controversial; around the world |
| moved to file: | many people believe that trade agreements, |
| pic25981.jpg) | even trade per se, undermines particular |
| | human rights such as labor rights or |
| | access to affordable medicine (the right |
| | to health). But trade and trade |
| | agreements can also advance human rights, |
| | directly or indirectly. In fact, some |
| | countries use trade policies to advance |
| | specific human rights such as labor rights |
| | or property rights. Although scholars, |
| | policy makers, and activists have long |
| | debated this relationship, in truth we |
| | know very little about it. |
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| | This book enters this murky territory with |
| | three goals. First, it uses stories about |
| | frogs, chocolate, culture, tires and other |
| | topics to provide readers with new |
| | insights into the relationship between |
| | trade and human rights. Second, it |
| | includes the first study of how South |
| | Africa, Brazil, the United States, and the |
| | European Union coordinate trade and human |
| | rights objectives and resolve conflicts. |
| | It also looks at how human rights issues |
| | are seeping into the WTO. Finally, it |
| | provides suggestions to policy makers for |
| | making their trade and human rights |
| | policies more coherent. |
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| | For more information about the book, |
| | please go to: www.tradeimbalance.net
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, JB1- 080
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Moderated by
Bernard Hoekman
Research Manager, Development Research Group, The World Bank
Mr. Hoekman is the manager of the international trade team of the
Development Research Group of the World Bank. He has worked
extensively on the Middle East and North Africa and economies in
transition. Between 1988 and 1993 he was on the staff of the GATT
Secretariat in Geneva. He is a Research Fellow of the London-based
Centre for Economic Policy Research.
Presented by the Authors
Susan Ariel Aaronson
Research Associate Professor, George Washington University
Susan Ariel Aaronson is Research Associate Professor at the George
Washington University, teaching in the Graduate School of Business
and Elliott School International Affairs. She also works as a
consultant for various organizations including the ILO and the
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Aaronson is the
author of 6 books and numerous articles on trade, investment,
development, human rights, and global corporate social
responsibility issues and has received over 30 grants for her
research from foundations such as the Ford, UN, Rockefeller, and
Levi-Strauss Foundations as well as corporations such as Pfizer,
Intel, and Starbucks. A frequent speaker on globalization issues,
she was a regular commentator on "All Things Considered," and
"Marketplace,? and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, and other media
outlets. Aaronson is a pro bono consultant to John Ruggie, the UN
Special Representative on the issue of human rights and
transnational corporations and she serves on the advisory board of
business-humanrights.org.
Jamie M. Zimmerman
Associate Director of the Global Assets Project, New America
Foundation
Ms. Zimmerman is conceptualizing, building and managing the Global
Assets project, a joint venture of the Asset Building Program at the
New America Foundation and the Center for Social Development at
Washington University in St. Louis. The program aims to advance
savings and asset-building policies and projects in the developing
and developed world. Previously, Ms. Zimmerman was the Associate
Director of Globalization Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill?s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise,
where she managed research and outreach efforts for projects aimed
at building awareness of the relationship between international
trade, human rights, and corporate social responsibility. She has
also worked as an international trade consultant in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, and with nonprofit micro-enterprise development groups in
Urubamba, Peru.
And Special Guest
John Ruggie
United Nations Special Representative on Business & Human Rights
Mr. Ruggie is the Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of
International Affairs. Prior to joining the Kennedy School he was
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving as chief
adviser for strategic planning to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. His
responsibilities included the U.N.'s Global Compact, intended to
advance human rights, labor standards, and environmental principles
in global corporate practices. Mr. Ruggie was Dean of the School of
International and Public Affairs at Columbia University from
1991-96. He also has taught at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, and has
held visiting appointments at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (Geneva), The Royal Institute of International
Affairs (London), Beijing University, and the European University
Institute (Florence).
Comments by:
Armand Pereira
Director, International Labor Organization Washington Office
Mr. Pereira is Director of the International Labor Organization
(ILO) in Washington since May 2005. Before that, he was Director of
the ILO Office in Brasilia, between Jan 1998 and May 2005. He
served the ILO at Headquarters in Geneva from Jan 1982 to Dec 1997
as Senior Economist in the Employment and Development Department
(1982-1992), and as Industry Specialist in the Sectoral Activities
Department (1993-1997).
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