The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 88
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Labour, environmental and human rights groups report that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement, signed by the United States and 11 Pacific Rim countries on 4 February 2016, not yet in force, was negotiated non-transparently and that its backers were primarily business lobbies. Critics point out that it fails to improve on the inadequate labour rights commitments of previous agreements, and extends benefits to countries like Viet Nam and Brunei, which limit political rights, civil liberties and freedom of association, and ban independent unions. Mexico is also a beneficiary, despite its record of permitting "illegitimate collective bargaining agreements (commonly known as 'protection contracts')" signed "between an employer and an employer-dominated union".
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
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Special Procedures' report
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Environment
Governance & Rule of Law
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2016
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Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/385, para. 88.