Free Trade Agreements Violate Basic Human Dignity

Corporate-led free trade agreements like CAFTA enable big business to scan the globe for the lowest possible wage at the expense of human rights, pitting workers against one another in a race to the bottom. The CAFTA agreement provides no effective mechanism for conditioning trade access on meeting basic human rights standards or for preventing countries from abusing human rights in an effort to attract investment. Furthermore, if CAFTA were passed by Congress it would expand economic human rights violations by pushing rural populations into poverty and jeopardizing access to medicines and essential services for the poor.

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