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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights calls into question Switzerland's foreign economic policy-making: Before the Session with the Committee in November 2010, Switzerland will have to respond how it ensures that its multilateral negotiations and bilateral agreements do not have an adverse impact on economic, social and cultural rights in other countries, including in relation to access to medicines. This and other related questions are included in the Committee's List of Issues, addressed to the Swiss government.
Missing policy coherence in Switzerland: trade interests overriding right to health? In this report presented to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in November 2009, 3D highlights the potentially adverse effects of Intellectual Property rules contained in Swiss free trade agreements on access to medicines in other countries.
Read the country briefing
Towards more coherence between international trade and the rights of the child: On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the rights of the child, celebrated on 8 and 9 October 2009 in the Centre International des Conférences in Geneva, 3D has published a paper on the importance of taking into account children's rights in international trade.
Read the paper
Panel on human rights impact assessments, 30 September 2009
On the occasion of the WTO Public Forum, 3D held an interactive session on “Human rights impact assessment (HRIA): A pertinent tool for informing and improving trade governance?”. The panel was co-sponsored by the OHCHR and brought together John Clarke, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Delegation of the EC to the International Organisations in Geneva; James Harrison, Professor of Law, University of Warwick; Sanya Reid Smith, Legal Advisor, Third World Network in Geneva and Simon Walker, PhD candidate, Utrecht University. Gabrielle Marceau, Councellor at the Office of the WTO Director General, moderated the debate.
Read the summary of the session
Listen to the audio recording of the session
Background information on HRIA
Threat to the right to food of children in Burkina Faso: intellectual property on seeds
In the submitted report for the upcoming presession of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in October, 3D highlights the potential consequences that the intellectual protection of new varieties may have on the enjoyment of children’s right to food in Burkina Faso.
Read the country briefing, in French
Impact of copyright rules on the right to education in the Philippines
During the last pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in June, 3D - in collaboration with IBON Foundation - submitted a report advocating for flexibilities within copyright legislation to promote access to education.
Read the country briefing
New publication! Seeds of hunger: intellectual property rights on seeds and the human rights response
3D’s latest publication analyzes the rise of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on seeds and the implications of this for rural livelihoods, cultural practices and the global food supply. It illustrates several human rights concerns related to IPRs on seeds and suggests some possible actions human rights advocates and others can undertake. The Backgrounder is part of the THREAD [Trade, Human Rights and the Economy: Action upDates] series, a topical information and action-alert series on trade, designed for people concerned with human rights.
Read the Backgrounder
Read the executive summary
Read other publications in this series
3D Advisory board member wins prestigious award
On 26 June Geoff Tansey, member of 3D’s Advisory Board, and Tasmin Rojotte won the Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing for their book The Future Control of Food. The award was presented in London on behalf of the Guild of Food Writers which annually rewards outstanding achievements of food writers. Last year Geoff Tansey already won the other Derek Cooper Award at the BBC’s Food and Farming Awards.
Seminar on the global land grab and human rights
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 16 May 2009
On 16 May 2009 3D → Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy and the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights organized The Global Land Grab: A Human Rights Approach. The seminar brought together over 50 people to share ideas about the rapidly accelerating investment in agricultural land for offshore food and fuel production. Specifically, this seminar sought to introduce a human rights angle to analyses of land grabbing. Participants assessed the trade and investment agreements that are enabling the trend, as well as the actual or likely consequences of land grabbing on the realization of human rights, particularly for small-scale farmers, indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups. Discussions also focused on potential responses to international land grabbing, particularly how human rights tools and mechanisms could support the development of human rights-consistent land investment policies.
Download resources from the seminar
More about international land grabbing
Land grabbing and human rights – reflections from the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Olivier De Schutter has proposed a minimum set of principles and measures based on human rights to guide the negotiation and implementation of large-scale land leases and acquisitions.
Read the press release
Read the briefing note
Is trade liberalization helping or hampering the realization of the right to food?
On 11 Mai Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the WTO, and Olivier De Schutter, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food joined for the debate "Is trade liberalization helping or hampering the realization of the right to food?" This discussion was organized jointly by the Mayor of Geneva and 3D as part of the Open Doors to the Palays Eynard – conferences, debates, exhibitions series.
Watch the video, in french
Towards Human Rights-Consistent Trade Policies: In January 2009, 3D published a guide to raising trade and trade-related issues in the human rights treaty monitoring process. The publication is designed to encourage human rights advocates to increase their focus on trade-related issues as they affect human rights, and to encourage human rights supervisory mechanisms to strengthen human rights accountability of trade actors.
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