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Manuals and guides

Training and Other Manuals

3D publishes a range of training and teaching materials on trade, on human rights and on trade and human rights.
Read more about 3D´s Manuals


THREAD

Trade Human Rights and the Economy: Action upDates

The THREAD series is a topical information and action-alert series on trade, designed for human rights advocates. THREAD publications are designed to provide advocates with the information tools to enable them to ensure that trade and trade rules promote and protect human rights.
Read more about the THREAD series and download publications


Policy Briefs

Policy Brief 4: How human rights can inform the WIPO Development Agenda
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Policy Brief 3: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 17 and Intellectual Property Rights

· Intellectual Property and Human Rights: Is the Distinction Clear Now? October 2006.
Download Policy Brief 3 in English, in Spanish

Policy Brief 2: Intellectual Property, Development and Human Rights

· Intellectual Property, Development and Human Rights: How Human Rights Can Support Proposals for a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Development Agenda, February 2006.
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Policy Brief 1: Cotton

· US and EU cotton production and export policies and their impact on West and Central Africa - Coming to grips with international human rights obligations, May 2004.
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Country Briefings

. Briefings on trade-related intellectual property rules, access to medicines, food, education and human rights.
Download Country briefings on Botswana, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Denmark & Italy (EU), Ecuador, El Salvador, India, Morocco, Niger, the Philippines, Switzerland, Thailand and Uganda.

. Compilation of UN Treaty Body recommendations on IP, access to medicines and human rights, 2004-2006 Download the Compilation


Articles and Presentations

. The WTO, International Trade, and Human Rights
. No Sell-Out on Trade in the Human Rights Commission
. The Right to Health and Economic Policy
. The Impact of Liberalization in Services on the Rights of the Child
. The Impact of Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights on Access to Affordable Medicines and Human Rights
. Public participation in trade decision-making processes and the WTO
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Press Releases and Notes

. Costa Rica: Government Advised to Assess the Impact of CAFTA-DR on the Enjoyment of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Information Note Number 8, 26 November 2007.
. Malaysia – Attorney-General Defends Generic Medicines Before UN Rights Body, Information Note Number 6, February 2007
. Human Rights and the Establishment of a WIPO Development Agenda, Information Note 5, June 2006
. UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights urges Morocco to evaluate impact of US-Morocco FTA on human rights, Information Note 4, June 2006
. Thailand Warned by UN Children’s Committee - Thai Children Must Not Suffer from FTAs, Information Note 3, January 2006.
. UN Children’s Committee Warns About FTA Threats, Information Note 2, July 2005.
· UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Considers Impact of Intellectual Property Rules on Human Rights, Information Note 1, December 2004.
. Botswana - Access to Affordable Drugs: Victims of HIV/AIDS Should Not Suffer From Trade Rules, Press Release, October 2004.
. El Salvador - Access to Affordable Drugs: Children’s Health First, Press Release, June 2004.
. Ecuador - Access to Affordable Drugs: a Right No FTA Can Ignore, Press Release, May 2004.
See information notes and press releases


Activity Reports

. 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy Annual Report 2009
. 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy Annual Report 2008
. 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy Annual Report 2007
. 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy Annual Report 2006
. 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy Annual Report 2005
. 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy Annual Report 2004
. 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy Activities Update, August 2004
. 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy Annual Report 2003

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Reports of 3D Meetings

. Study Session on Intellectual Property and Human Rights
. Towards Development: Human Rights and the WTO Agenda
. Rights Tools for Sustainable Development
. In-Depth Study Sessions on the WTO for Human Rights Professionals
Download reports of these and other workshops


Statements

. Statement by 3D for the Fifth Session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP), 26 April 2010
. Statement to the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development, 26 April 2010
. Statement by 3D to the Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA), 21 February 2006.
· Statement by 3D in front of the third Inter-sessional Intergovernmental Meeting (IIM) on a WIPO Development Agenda, 20-22 July 2005
· Statement by 3D on the obligations of European Union member states in front of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 8 November 2005
· Statement by 3D on Ecuador in front of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 26 April 2004
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