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human rights
The moral high ground is always easier to occupy when falling from it poses little danger of sustaining serious damage. So it required little courage for MP Keith Locke, the Green Party's indefatigable foreign affairs spokesperson, to put pressure on the Government to take a stronger stand against the Chinese authorities' crackdown on protesters in Tibet.
The European Union has told Sri Lanka it has "very serious concerns" about civil war human rights abuses and that lucrative trade concessions could be at risk if they continue.
We can't separate the oppression of the Tibetan people from the preferential trade agreement New Zealand is about to sign with China.
Human rights activists will take to the footpath outside Helen Clark's Auckland office on Wednesday to protest against a free-trade deal with China.
Violent protests in Tibet have come at a very awkward time for the New Zealand government with Prime Minister Helen Clark about to sign a free trade deal with China. While other government's around the world were quick to condemn China's violent response to Tibetan protests, Clark was hesitant for most of Monday, saying she did not have enough information.
A Green MP says New Zealand cannot sign a free trade agreement with China while it continues to suppress Tibetan people.
In its introduction the book explains how international financial institutions act like tailors charged with fitting out transnationals with tailor-made suits.
Top labor leaders ended a trip to Colombia Feb. 13 by telling that country's president, Alvaro Uribe, that American unions will not support the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement until the killing of union members by right-wing death squads there is put to a stop.
The US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is considered a non-starter in the US Congress because the country is the world's deadliest for union activists. Less known, but equally disturbing is the systematic violence now confronting Afro-Colombians.
the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) emphasizes that there are particular dangers associated with the negotiation of trade and investment agreements in a regional or bilateral context, which may not exist, or may not exist to the same extent, in the multilateral framework of the WTO.
