Statement of the Human Rights Caucus on the occasion of the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization
December 10, 2005
In a matter of days, government delegates will be gathering in Hong Kong for the latest landmark event in the ongoing process of economic globalization—the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO). We, members of civil society from developed and developing countries, concerned about the impact of this process on the realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms of people all over the world, take the opportunity of International Human Rights Day to remind our governments that their human rights obligations cannot be abandoned at the WTO door.