Dalke: Enforcing Human Rights through the WTO: A Critical Appraisal 3 WTO members are already party to the major UN human rights treaties. The second proposal would involve a process almost identical to the state party reporting required under the UN hu man rights treaties and would thus be unnecessarily duplicative. Additionally, this paper will not specifically evaluate proposals to enforc [...] Dalke: Enforcing Human Rights through the WTO: A Critical Appraisal 7 with. In both documents, rights are framed broadly and cover such a wide range of obligations that it would be nearly impossible to find a state that has an unblemished record.3 1 To overcome such difficulties, proponents of enforcing human rights under the WTO have proposed that only “core” human rights or those that have [...] Dalke: Enforcing Human Rights through the WTO: A Critical Appraisal 11 The committees also all suffer from serious resource constraints. In particular, the com mittee secretariats are “understaffed and underpowered.” In some acute cases, committee sessions have been cancelled because of lack of funds. More generally, there have been restrictions on documentation, delay in translation, and re [...] Dalke: Enforcing Human Rights through the WTO: A Critical Appraisal 12 Under the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, a number of activities have been carried out, such as technical assistance and advisory services and training programs for legal officials such as judges, law enforcement officers, and prison adminis trators, etc.6 1 The establishment of huma [...] Dalke: Enforcing Human Rights through the WTO: A Critical Appraisal 13 The MFN principle requires that any advantage, favour, privilege, or immunity granted to any product or service from a given country must be granted to like products or services originat ing in all other member countries (GATT Article I; GATS Article II; TRIPs Article IV). The na tional treatment principle requires that