Separating Fact from Fiction in the Debate over Application of The Alien Tort Claims Act to Violations of Fundamental Human Rights by Corporations

There was virtually no dissent, judicially or politically, to opening the federal courts to foreign victims of human rights violations with the ATCA and TVPA, and allowing individuals, usually former military officials, to be brought to justice in the United States

An Essential Element of Fair Trade and Sustainable Development in the FTAA is an Enforceable Social Clause

Multinational companies (“MNCs”) and governments that are fantasizing about a Free Trade Area of the Americas (“FTAA”) should accept the reality that the FTAA is not politically viable for the time being unless the issues of labor rights and other social conditions are addressed in a manner demonstrating that these rights are consistent with commercial rights that are protected in careful detail in many pages of the draft FTAA agreement

Developing Effective Mechanisms for Implementing Labor Rights in the Global Economy

The paper explains that workers in different countries are not adversaries and no actual conflict of interest exists between them. It contends that a raise in global wages will benefit workers worldwide. However, this growth in the global economy will not happen if workers in the U.S. and Europe, whose high wages fuel global demand for consumer goods, are losing their jobs to workers who earn subsistence wages

Workers in the Global Economy

[Excerpt] The Workers in the Global Economy project is part of a growing international labor rights movement. This movement brings together researchers, policy analysts, and advocates in trade unions and allied NGOs who want to make social justice the touchstone of an integrated international economy. Participants in the WGE project hope it contributes new understanding of the global economy and how it affects workers. More important, we hope that it gives labor rights advocates tools to change the effects of globalization on working people around the world.Compa167_Workers_in_the_Global_Economy.pdf: 182 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020