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Problems with current U.S. policy.

Publication: Foreign Policy in Focus
Publication Date: 10-DEC-02 		Format: Online - approximately 727 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Key Problems

* Trade agreements may contain general language addressing workers' rights, but in many cases these standards do not include specific protections for women.

* Trade unions have found it difficult to organize women workers, and workplace problems specific to women have sometimes remained unresolved.

* The core labor standards do not deal with pervasive forms of discrimination against women, such as sexual harassment.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Congress passed a series of laws that directly linked U.S. trade benefits to a set of worker rights criteria. The first of these programs, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, contained only a one-line reference to workers' rights, but in 1984...

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