PHM-Exch> [CETIM Report n°7] INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL, SUBREGIONAL AND BILATERAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

[Claudio Schuftan]

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Succinct Presentation of This Report:*
*INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL, SUBREGIONAL AND BILATERAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS*
There is a dense network of economic and financial agreements and treaties –
international, regional, sub-regional and bilateral – that have superseded
the basic instruments
of international and regional human rights, including the right to a safe
environment. Constitutions and national laws intended to promote harmonious
national
development and political, economic, social, cultural and environmental
human rights have been subordinated to them.

This network, as a consequence of the implementation of “most favourable
treatment”, “national treatment” and “most favoured nation” clauses that
appear
in almost every treaty, works as an interconnecting system that allows
neo-liberal policies to operate freely on a planetary scale and penetrate
countries
where they result in the dismantling of national economies, provoking grave
social harm.

All this involves the primacy of the interests of capital over the
democratic and human rights of peoples. Liberalization and privatization
policies are coalescing into a
legally binding system. And these policies are being made irreversible
through international agreements.....

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