The EU must use this opportunity to include enforceable human rights obligations and due diligence and transparency.
The United States has been pushing hard for trade agreements that include enforceable labour and environmental standards and for a more open WTO.
Recommendations include enforceable legislation to promote safer stove design, research into safer bio fuels and materials for building shacks as well promoting fire safety among schoolchildren in the community.
Include enforceable standards.
Similarly, the TPP fails to include enforceable methods to stop foreign labor abuses including poverty wages and violations of collective bargaining rights.
Governments can and should insist that global trade rules include enforceable workers' rights and that health and safety laws meet international standards and are effectively enforced.
"Any new trade agreements," the platform proclaims, "must include strong and enforceable labor and environmental standards".
TPP and all future trade deals must include clear and enforceable rules covering currency manipulation and other ways that countries game the system.
This important legislation ensures that for the first time any new trade agreement must include strong, clear, enforceable rules to ensure the free global flow of data.
