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New Global Contract Needed to Re-Assert Basic Rights, Protect Environment

Global institutions enforcing trade and finance rules have overridden fundamental human rights, stalled international development and harmed the environment, finds three new papers released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Promoting Human Rights and the Environment in Trade and Finance Rules

This paper identifies successful strategies by civil society groups to challenge unfair multilateral rules.

A Framework for Rebalancing Global Norms

This paper analyzes the role of global trade and financial institutions in undermining human rights, and identifies strategies for global organizing in support of a new system.

The Food Crisis and Global Institutions

The food crisis should move us toward a new era of global cooperation, one that is democratic and accountable to people and the planet.

Turning High Prices Into an Opportunity: What is Needed

The global food crisis is an opportunity for the international community to provide greater support for agriculture in countries that are struggling with hunger.