DR-CAFTA and Worker's Rights: Moving from Paper to Practice, released in May 2009 by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
2008 CAFTA Complaint (filed by Guatemalan unions and AFL-CIO)
AFL-CIO and Central American Union CAFTA statement (2005)
AFL-CIO Statement on CAFTA-Related Job Loss (2005)
Human Rights Watch analysis of CAFTA (March 2004)
International Labor Rights Fund testimony on CAFTA (April 2005)
Stop CAFTA Coalition
Washington Office on Latin America statement on CAFTA
Citizen Trade Campaign Statement on CAFTA (2005)
Colombia Free Trade Agreement
USLEAP Impunity Report on Colombia (released 2009)
USLEAP Impunity Report on Colombia (released 2008)
USLEAP Impunity Fact Sheet (December 2009)
USLEAP Colombia Talking Points (December 2009)
AFL-CIO Web Page on Colombia FTA
AFL-CIO Workers' Rights Report on Colombia (January 2008)
AFL-CIO and Colombian Trade Union statement on FTA
Colombian government report on violence (April 2007)
Colombian government report on impunity(April 2007)
USLEAP written testimony against Colombia FTA (March 2004)
(read the oral testimony here)
US Trade Union Letter to Congress 2007
Afro-Colombian and Afro-Peruvian Letter on Colombia and Peru FTAs
Indigenous Letter on FTA
US Environmental Organization Letter on FTA
WOLA and Public Citizen Statement on FTA and Increased Violence and Drug Trafficking
US Congressional Letters on Colombia:
Dear Colleague on Colombia 2005
Senate Letter 2005
Ecuador
AFL-CIO and Ecuadorian Trade Union statement on FTA (June 2004)
Human Rights Watch report, Tainted Harvest (April 2002)
U.S. Congressional letters on Ecuador and worker rights (2003,
2004, 2005)
Worker rights petitions (2003, 2004, 2005)
USLEAP Letter to USTR (March 2009)
Fast-track, Trade Agreements
Alliance for Responsible Trade
Citizen Trade Campaign
Global Trade Watch (Public Citizen)
TRADE Act (2009)
NAFTA (Mexico)
"Workers' Freedom of Association Under Attack in Mexico," Solidarity Center Policy Brief, August 2008
Citizen Trade Campaign
Global Trade Watch (Public Citizen)
Mexico Labor Law Reform (Human Rights Watch Statement,
Dec. 2004)
Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Mexico (Solidarity Center, 2003)
NAO 2005 Complaint
United Electrical Workers Mexico News
Guatemala
The Struggle for Worker Rights in Guatemala, released June 2009 by the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center
Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights released on June 2009 by the International Trade Union Confederation's (ITUC)
DR-CAFTA and Worker's Rights: Moving from Paper to Practice, released in May 2009 by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
2008 CAFTA Complaint (filed by Guatemalan unions and AFL-CIO)
2005 USLEAP/WOLA Worker Rights Petition
US Congressional Letters on Guatemala:
Trade Programs
Trade Conditions and Labor Rights: U.S. Initiatives, Dominican and Central America Responses, by Henry J. Frundt (1998: University Press of Florida, Gainesville)
Trade: Alternative Models and Approaches
Development Gap
Hemispheric Social Alliance
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
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