This paper looks at the challenges to address if a human rights impact assessment of trade agreements is to emerge as a robust and credible policy tool for states.
Research paper
Published 18 February 2019
Updated 9 February 2021
ISBN: 978 1 78413 314 6
The author is grateful to Ruma Mandal, head of the International Law Programme at Chatham House, for her assistance in preparing this research paper.
The analysis in this paper benefits from insights drawn from a roundtable held at Chatham House in 2018, as well as from a series of stakeholder interviews. Thanks are due to the participants at the roundtable and to subsequent interviewees, who gave generously of their time and provided valuable insights.
Thanks are also due to external and Chatham House reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of the paper.
The views expressed in this paper are the sole responsibility of the author.
This paper was made possible by the generous support of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.