Economic Policy / Activities and Actions

Principle of primacy of human rights implies that trade, financial and monetary policies should all be coherent and subordinated to the fulfillment of human rights. The trend towards policy coherence means the creation and consolidation of a system of legal rules that is parallel to the international human rights framework. Thus, it can lead to the suppression of means to implement, in practice, the primacy of human rights law.

The goal of this workshop was to understand how to use a human rights approach in addressing the WTO and trade liberalization and how to use a HR approach to transform what happens in organizations like the World Bank.  Because of time, this workshop focused on the WTO.   The workshop discussed...