National Events

2003 Congressional Briefing on the Domestic Effects of Free Trade Agreements

This was an opportunity for those directly afflicted by 'free' trade policies to testify to representatives, policymakers, and the media how neo-liberal policies under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have devastated their livelihoods, health and human rights.

2002 India Meeting on Workers' Rights and Trade

We live in an era of promise and uncertainty. Economic globalization promoted through free trade agreements, such as through the World Trade Organization (WTO), has created new opportunities for some and has accelerated the accumulation of wealth. At the same time, many people have been left behind and inequalities within and among nations have grown. Despite the fact that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, and other human rights laws recognize workers’ rights, these rights have been violated and ignored by trade and investment agreements.

2001 Economic Human Rights Bus Tour: California

The United States has never grown so much food. Yet, in the world's richest nation, more than 36 million people, including 14 million children, experience hunger.

The People's Caravan 2000

The People's Caravan was a grassroots led mass mobilization and alternatives building initiative to tackle growing control of transnational corporations of our agriculture and food system and to demand the human right to feed oneself.

1999 Economic Human Rights Bus Tour: Georgia

Each stop along the tour highlighted the economic justice work of local groups while promoting national policy initiatives that make a real difference in peoples lives.

1998 Human Rights Hearings

Despite a booming economy, we saw only a slight decline in the rate of poverty in 1997, which affected 35.6 million Americans -- 40 percent of whom were children -- according to figures from the Census Bureau. The time has come to say that overwhelming hunger and poverty in such a wealthy nation violates basic human rights.