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The House should reject the accord for falling short on workers' human rights because it does not require countries to protect women workers from discrimination or to have laws that meet international labor standards.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130430234258/http://www.hrw.org/news/2003/07/31/right-way-trade">The Right Way to Trade</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jul 31, 2003</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">This week the United States and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua have been conducting the sixth of nine negotiating rounds for a U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). The United States has already proposed labor rights provisions for CAFTA similar to those in the U.S free trade agreements with Chile and Singapore. But those are the wrong models.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130430234258/http://www.hrw.org/news/2003/07/31/right-way-trade-0">The Right Way to Trade</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jul 31, 2003</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Bush administration is quietly carrying on a major new trade negotiation with Central America that could show -- contrary to the notion that globalization hurts workers -- how international trade deals can increase respect for labor rights. 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