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A trade deal is good for Colombian human rights (The Globe and Mail - Canada) Studies suggest increased trade may help improve human- and labour-rights deficiencies. In their recent book Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights concerns in Trade Poliymaking (link), Susan Aaronson and Jamie Zimmerman argue that increased trade brings about increased "integrity rights," such as freedom from arbitrary imprisonment, torture and killings. ...

It is the world's longest pipeline, built during the Soviet era, and its official name is Druzhba, meaning Friendship.But given the nasty trade dispute between two former Soviet republics, which has disrupted refined oil and gas supplies to Europe, it could be renamed the Brinkmanship pipeline.At stake is the reliability of energy supplies from Russia flowing through Belarus to Europe. Also in question is the government of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, referred to by the United… more