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Impact Turn- FTA’s Bad Human Rights
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Impact Turn- FTA’s Bad Human RightsFTA’s have a comparatively worse human rights record than the WTO Dommen 2006(Caroline, The WTO, international trade, and human rights, http://www.3dthree.org/pdf_3D/WTOmainstreamingHR.pdf Accessed 7/26/11) Representative Robert Zoellick said at a press conference before leaving Cancún that bilateral agreements would receive Washington's priority after the failure of the Cancún Ministerial. Subsequently the US announced that Washington would launch negotiations for bilateral trade pacts with countries including the Dominican Republic, Panama, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. From an equity and human rights point of view, this is a troublesome development as bilateral trade negotiations offer far more scope for arm-twisting, bullying and lack of transparency than the WTO. On key issues of concern to human rights advocates, such as transparency or intellectual property protection for medicines, bilateral agreements have made the WTO look positively rosy. Lack of transparency, participation and democracy in the WTO is in clear contrast to human rights principles which require participation, protection of the most vulnerable and accountability. The WTO's lack of democracy facilitates outcomes that pay little heed to public interest concerns and go against the right to a social and international order in which human rights can be fully realized. Whilst it is important to address these problems and seek to mainstream human rights in the WTO, it is important to note that the WTO is a better guarantor of human rights- and public interestconsistent outcomes than the absence of international trade rules, or than bilateral trade agreements. Human rights advocates should bear this in mind as evidence of the importance of maintaining scrutiny of trade policy-making at the national, bilateral and regional levels just as much as of the WTO as a forum. Impact Turn- ProlifSKFTA Opens the US up to North Korean Goods- Gives Millions of dollars to the Regimes Congressman Sherman 6/15/11 (Brad, Korea Free Trade Agreement Will Benefit North Korea, http://www.tradereform.org/tag/korus-fta/, Accessed 7/26/11) Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) today released the following statement on the planned consideration of the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Congress should reject the pending FTA with South Korea. It is likely that the United States would be opened up to North Korean goods under the agreement’s liberal rules of origin. Goods with up to 65 percent non-South Korean content can enter the United States with preferential, often duty free, treatment under this agreement. Nothing in this agreement prevents that foreign content from being North Korean. Also, the language purporting to govern the so-called Kaesong Industrial Complex is intentionally vague. Goods entirely produced in sweatshops north of the DMZ may end up being given the same treatment as South Korean goods under the agreement. The 40,000 workers at Kaesong are not paid by their South Korean employers. The money goes to the North Korean government. Along with several millions in fees, these payments provide hard currency for the North Korean government to maintain its grip on power and pursue nuclear proliferation. If we are serious about denying North Korea the cash it needs to pursue its nefarious aims, we would ensure that this free trade agreement was clear, that no North Korean goods will be allowed into the United States. In hearings on July 13, 2007 and again by letter on February 9, 2011, I asked the United States Trade Representative for a clear statement that goods made 100 percent at Kaesong could not be given access to the United States market unless approved by future statutory enactment. Silence on both occasions provides a clear answer. As the South Korean Ambassador said in 2007, “the planned ratification of the Korea-U.S. FTA will pave the way,” for Kaesong goods in the United States. SKFTA leads to Asian non-proliferation
Prolif causes extinction. Utgoff 2 (Victor A., Deputy Director of the Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division of the Institute for Defense Analysis, Survival Vol 44 No 2 Proliferation, Missile Defence and American Ambitions, p. 87-90) In sum, widespread proliferation is likely to lead to an occasional shoot-out with nuclear weapons, and that such shoot-outs will have a substantial probability of escalating to the maximum destruction possible with the weapons at hand. Unless nuclear proliferation is stopped, we are headed toward a world that will mirror the American Wild West of the late 1800s. With most, if not all, nations wearing nuclear 'six-shooters' on their hips, the world may even be a more polite place than it is today, but every once in a while we will all gather on a hill to bury the bodies of dead cities or even whole nations. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 0.85 Mb. Share with your friends:
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