15.00 to 16.00 (CEST)

The question of the role of labour rights in the framework of the WTO fuelled debates in the early days of the Organization but has become far less prominent since the 1996 Singapore Ministerial Conference. In recent years, the issue of labour rights has, however, made a comeback in bilateral and plurilateral Free Trade Agreements (such as those involving the EU, for example), where the ratification of certain ILO conventions is stipulated as a requirement. At the same time, recent trade agreements such as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) include very strong and novel provisions on labour rights.

Moderators

• Mr. Nadir Manzoor
  Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO
  Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana
• Mr. Bernd Lange
  Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO
  Chair of the Committee on International Trade (INTA), European Parliament

Discussants

• Mr. Fadli Zon
  Member of Parliament, Indonesia
• Ms. Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
  Member of the European Parliament
• Ms. Marva Corley-Coulibaly
  Chief of the Globalization, Competitiveness and Labour Standards Unit
  International Labour Organization (ILO)

Registration deadline- September 6