Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest • Volume 10 • Number 14 • 26th April 2006
Resources
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS REFERENCES TO TRADE. By 3D -> Trade -> Human Rights -> Equitable Economy. April 2006. References to trade and trade-related issues in the work of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are compiled by 3D in this publication. It should provide a useful resource to all those interested in the intersection between trade, economics, and human rights. To download the publication, see http://www.3dthree.org/en/page.php?IDpage=49.
IMPLICATIONS OF WTO LITIGATION FOR THE WTO AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS. By Tim Josling, Longyue Zhao, Jeronimo Carcelen, and Kaush Arha. International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, March 2006. This briefing paper looks at how the WTO litigation process is being increasingly used in cases involving agricultural subsidies and other central aspects of farm policy, and highlights how this is affecting the Doha Round. The publication can be downloaded at http://www.agritrade.org/Publications/WTO%20litigation.pdf.
SOUTH BULLETIN 112. By the South Centre, 15 April 2006. This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on foreign investment, with articles about the India-Brazil-South Africa meeting, concerns about foreign investment contracts, the corporate lobby for investment liberalisation, and the challenge developing countries face in navigating international investment agreements. The publication can be accessed at http://www.southcentre.org/info/southbulletin/bulletin122.pdf.