We, the undersigned human rights, environmental and development organizations, urge all governments to place human rights at the core of international economic agreements, by integrating human rights protections into international investment and trade agreements and to ensure that these agreements do not impair governments’ abilities to respect, protect and fulfill their human rights obligations... [The] following proposed international trade agreements, in their current forms, do not meet...core requirements [on human rights]:

• Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (EU-Canada)
• Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (ASEAN & other Asia and Pacific countries)
• Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (EU-USA)
• Trans-Pacific Partnership (12 signatories in Pacific Rim region)
• EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement