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| Title: | Integrating Trade and Human Rights in the Americas |
| Source: | INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: FOUNDATIONS AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES. |
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| Year: | 2003 |
| Pages: | 0 |
| Author(s): | Garcia, Frank J. |
| Keywords: | NAFTA, trade agreements, MERCOSUR, FTAA, free trade, human rights, hemispheric integration |
| Abstract: | The paper addresses the attempts that have been done in the regional and hemispheric trade agreements in integrating human rights and democracy compromises, making reference to NAFTA, MERCOSUR and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The author pointed out to two models for the relationship between integration systems and human rights protection: leverage and incorporation models. The first one involves making effective participation in extrinsic human rights systems a legal or political condition of integration system membership, and is the one the author focuses on in this paper.
Garcia addresses two questions, focusing on the leverage model: first to what extent has membership in hemispheric integration systems been used to leverage more effective human rights protection; and second, to what extent should such leverage be developed as part of the evolution of hemispheric integration. |
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