Links to web sites on
Trade & International Solidarity

On trade: 

Rethinking the NAFTA Record
The Alternatives document produced by the Hemispheric Social Alliance.
American Friends Service Committee
Analysis of US Trade Representative's (USTR) position on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) produced by the Alliance for Responsible Trade:
The Free Trade Area of the Americas and the Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in Canada and the Americas,by Maude Barlow
Alliance for Responsible Trade
Common Frontiers
Council of Canadians
Global Exchange. Global exchange is an organization dedicated to democratizing the global economy.
Global Trade Watch
Hemispheric Social Alliance
Jobs With Justice
Polaris Institute: Note: you can test yourself by playing FTAA jeopardy on this website!
Public Citizen
Sierra Club
UE website information on FTAA.
United for a Fair Economy
WTO Watch keeping track of the World Trade Organization.
The official FTAA Website contains the draft document of the Free Trade Area of the Americas treaty proposal.

& International Solidarity 

Unions worldwide that the UE is allied with.

National Labor Committee, a human rights advocacy group that focuses on the promotion and defense of worker rights. The NLC puts a human face on the global economy. This site is full of great information about campaigns and contains the actual testimony of sweatshop workers, information about conditions in particular companies, and wages and working conditions in countries around the world.

Resource Center of the Americas
The Resource Center of the Americas reviews labor conditions, labor-related news, union organizing and cross-border solidarity in countries throughout North, Central and South America.

Free the Children
Free the Children is an international network of children helping children through representation, leadership and action. It is dedicated to eliminating the exploitation of children around the world, by encouraging youth to volunteer in, as well as to create programs and activities that relieve the plight of underprivileged children.

UNICEF
This site contains information about the human rights of children with an emphasis on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

International Labor Rights Fund, a nongovernmental organization

United Students Against Swentshops (USAS), an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers' rights.

Workers' Rights Consortium This is a relatively new effort by students to get their universities to join a network which will respond to worker complaints. The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is a non-profit organization that supports and verifies licensee compliance with codes of conduct in global workplaces. These codes of conduct have been developed by colleges and universities across the country to ensure that goods are produced under conditions that respect the basic rights of workers.

European Trade Union Institute

Founded in 1978 on the initiative of the European Trade Union Confederation, the Institute forms a bridge between the trade union movement and the academic world. On this site you'll find a database of European Works Councils and the agreements they operate under. Trade Union Institute Web site

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