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Maison des Associations
15 rue des Savoises
1205 Genève
T +41 22 320 21 21
F +41 22 320 69 48
info@3dthree.org
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3D’s activities include providing information, analysis and advice on trade and human rights issues, in order to encourage groups and individuals to look at the broader development-dimensions of this relationship. In each programme area we indicate to human rights advocates how they can usefully and effectively engage in trade policy-making. Also, we provide technical advice to development groups and policy-makers on how human rights rules and mechanisms can support fairer trade rules. Furthermore, we facilitate dialogue and discussion between groups working on trade, development and human rights, in order to achieve pro-development policy outcomes.
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Trade rules can affect human rights in many ways. 3D believes that compliance with international trade rules cannot justify non-compliance with human rights obligations. 3D´s work aims at achieving an information-transmitting and bridge-building role between the two areas.
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Trade-related intellectual property (IP) rules have an impact on the enjoyment of human rights, such as access to medicines under the right to health and access to seeds under the right to food. 3D’s work aims to ensure that human rights are respected at all levels of IP policy-making and that IP systems are consistent with development commitments and human rights obligations.
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Agricultural trade policy affects the enjoyment of human rights, including the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to food, the right to life, and the right to be free from discrimination. 3D’s work aims to support small farmers and rural populations by using human rights to put people – not production – at the centre of agricultural policies.
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Investment in large-scale agricultural land has an impact on the enjoyment of human rights, such as the right to food, housing and water, and the right to development. 3D´s work aims to support small-scale farmers by promoting land investment policies that are consistent with human rights obligations.
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Trade policy-making currently lacks transparency and public participation, despite the fact that access to information and participation in the conduct of public affairs are human rights. 3D’s work aims to encourage advocates to use human rights to support claims for greater transparency and public participation in trade processes.
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Liberalization of trade in services can lead to a two-tiered system of service provision with dramatic effects on the enjoyment of human rights, including the right to health, the right to education and the right to be free from discrimination. 3D’s work aim’s to encourage countries to keep sufficient “policy space” in order to regulate services in the public interest.
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