Trade and economic policies should be guided by human rights standards. This is a simple matter of common sense, yet remains a distant aspiration...We believe that human rights mechanisms, such as the Committees set up to monitor implementation of States' human rights commitments, have an important role in this regard. Indeed, recommendations by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Rights of the Child have drawn the attention of people worldwide...to the fact that compliance with international trade rules cannot justify non-compliance with human rights obligations...It is our hope that all human rights treaty supervisory mechanisms...will focus more on holding...economic actors accountable to their human rights commitments...the issues and questions set out in this document provide a useful sample of questions that treaty body members can raise in their dialogue with States parties. This document is also designed to be a useful tool for others...