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CAFTA Deals Watchdog Report - Public Citizen

Washington, D.C -- Faced with Bush administration indifference to his call for $1 billion1 in labor rights capacity building funds for CAFTA ...

CAFTA Deals Watchdog Report - Public Citizen

Why recycling the same offer over and over only counts as a. CAFTA “sugar deal” to those who already support CAFTA… Washington, D.C. – How many ...

Getting beyond the myths of CAFTA - Nieman Watchdog

But that has little to do with the realities of CAFTA, a complex managed trade agreement that caters to the elites and would doom the workers of Central America ...

Opportunities for U.S. Consumer-Oriented Products in CAFTA-DR ...

The Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) 1 region and Panama combine to represent the seventh-largest market for US consumer- ...

Drawing Lessons From the US-Guatemala CAFTA Dispute

The labor law enforcement obligations of. CAFTA-DR are set forth in Article 16.2 of the Agreement. 2. 4. Paula C. Albertson & Lance Compa, Labour Rights and ...

Central America and the Dominican Republic in the Context of the ...

This report explains the conditions in five countries in Central America (Costa. Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) and one country in ...

On Eve of CAFTA Debate - International Labor Rights Forum

CONTACT: Bama Athreya (703) 328-1964 On Eve of CAFTA Debate NEW STUDY SHOWS PATTERN OF LABOR RIGHTS VIOLATIONS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AMERICA US ...

H.R.3045 - 109th Congress (2005-2006): Dominican Republic ...

Summary of H.R.3045 - 109th Congress (2005-2006): Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act.

CAFTA-DR (Dominican Republic-Central America FTA)

The Dominican Republic-Central America FTA (CAFTA-DR) is the first free trade agreement between the United States and a group of smaller developing economies.

Tweaking U.S. trade policy could hold the key to reducing migration ...

Our research delved into the effectiveness of existing trade agreements in creating jobs in migrant-sending countries, with a focus on Central ...

Monitoring Progress of the Environmental Cooperation Agenda in ...

On February 18th, 2005, the CAFTA-DR Parties, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hon- duras, Nicaragua, and the U.S., signed the ...

Investment Climate Statements: Custom Report Excerpts - United ...

The Central America Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) increased bilateral trade between the United States and the Dominican Republic from USD ...

Deals for Trade Votes Gone Bad - Issue Lab

CAFTA and NAFTA Sugar Deals………………………….......... 7 ... 2003 International Labor Organization (ILO) report on the CAFTA target countries found ... watchdog group that ...

CAFTA-DR - AGRICULTURE Specific Fact Sheet Background

Currently the Central American countries and the Dominican Republic are allowed to charge very high tariffs, limited only by WTO commitments.

Free Trade Agreements: U.S. Partners Are Addressing Labor ...

Partner countries of free trade agreements (FTA) that GAO selected—the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) and ...

Freedom in the World 2012 Complete Book

... report editors. Overall guidance for the project was provided by David J. Kramer, president of Freedom House, and Arch. Puddington, vice president for ...

2023 Investment Climate Statements: Guatemala

Guatemala has the largest economy in Central America, with a $ 94.7 billion gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022.

Nieman Watchdog > Ask This

John Britton offers guidance on a story begging to be reported wherever there's a prison, or ex-offenders. Appropriate, challenging questions | A line of ...

Costa Rican Ombudsperson report on Budapest Treaty - GRAIN

Costa Rican Ombudsperson report ... CAFTA. Among other things, CAFTA imposed new ... deal. In that process, the Office of the Costa Rican Ombudsperson, an official ...

CAFTA - Global Policy Forum

" Ironically, the negotiations for the trade deal themselves are anything but transparent. Despite demands from watchdog groups, draft texts of the CAFTA ...