The impact of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements on the human rights of migrants 2016, para. 64
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- The recent negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Trade in Services Agreement, which comprise at least two thirds of global trade in services, highlight the lack of transparency, opportunities for public dialogue and accountability surrounding trade negotiations. Like other mandate holders, the Special Rapporteur remains concerned about the extent to which transnational corporate interests have prevailed over public discourse and accountability for observing human rights standards. Although trade regimes have a significant impact on the lives of migrants, they rarely offer migrants or their representatives opportunities for meaningful participation in negotiation processes, which violates migrants' fundamental rights to self-determination, access to information and public participation. The Special Rapporteur is not aware of migrants' groups being consulted in these negotiations; more broadly, civil society does not participate in trade negotiations sufficiently. Despite power imbalances in the international trade regime, States repeatedly fail to reform trade negotiations to make them more transparent or strengthen accountability through enforcement against related rights violations.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 64
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