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Integrating Voluntary Sustainability Standards in trade policy: The case of the European Union's GSP scheme KU Leuven
© 2018 by the authors. Trade policy is increasingly being used as a policy instrument to pursue non-trade objectives such as environmental protection or the protection of labour rights. A key example is the European Union's Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP). The current approach is being confronted with significant challenges. How these challenges can be addressed is currently subject to debate, and increased attention is turning to the ...
Explaining New Models of Global Voluntary Regulation: What Can Organisational Studies Contribute? KU Leuven
© 2018 University of Durham and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Global governance in its myriad forms and actor constellations has decisively demonstrated the potential for rule-making above the nation state to be liberated from the ‘iron cage’ of traditional intergovernmental forums and multilateral bureaucracy. To further investigate an increasingly complex global reality, we propose drawing on organisational theories and methods for penetrating ...
Monitoring Forced Labour and Slavery in Global Supply Chains: The Case of the California Act on Transparency in Supply Chains KU Leuven
© 2017 University of Durham and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Supply chains have more and more become global supply chains, due to which it becomes increasingly more difficult for states to monitor whether the production process of goods entering the territory has been free of labour rights abuses. States are less able to hold corporate entities accountable that are knowingly or unknowingly benefiting from labour rights abuses. Transparency ...
Strengthening Labour Rights Provisions in Bilateral Trade Agreements: Making the Case for Voluntary Sustainability Standards KU Leuven
Since 2008, most bilateral and regional EU trade agreements contain so-called Trade and Sustainable Development chapters. Such sustainability chapters typically include commitments to core ILO labour rights and provide specific monitoring mechanisms to ensure compliance. Several observers however, have voiced concern about the enforcement potential of these provisions in practice, beyond legal and institutional reforms. As a means to overcome ...
Combating Slavery, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Are Current International, European and National Instruments Working? KU Leuven
© 2017 University of Durham and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd All throughout history, slavery has been a constant and a key factor in economic development. Also for many centuries slavery and forced labour was legal. Only from the beginning of the 20th century onwards slavery became illegal and criminalized. Many international commitments were made to address the issue of forced labour and slavery. However, despite these international legislative ...