IGTN supports the human rights of women and men around the world, regardless of race, class, or religion. IGTN advocates for trade policies to not infringe on people's fundamental human rights to water, health, sustainable development, and education among other things.

The IGTN maintains that the provisioning of water, health care, and education (sectors included in trade negotiations) is essential to human well-being and building human potential. They are key to the work of social reproduction of the human family and the human community, the work assigned to women in most countries. Privatization of these services, either through structural adjustment programs or trade liberalization, has not extended the services nor improved their quality for the majority of people in most countries of the South.

The IGTN advocates for services essential to human development and ensuring human rigts for all to be kept out of trade policies. The human rights of women, their families, and communities are not tradable commodities.

The following featured articles address IGTN's concerns about the impact of trade liberalization in on human rights:

• Gender issues in the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement. By Natividad Y. Bernardino, IGTN Asia. September, 2007
• Civil society and the New Aid Modalities: Addressing the challenges for Gender Equality, Democracy and Participation. By Dr. Mariama Williams, trade expert, IGTN Caribbean. June, 2007. 
• Row to Hoe - The gender impact of trade liberalization on our food system, agricultural markets and women's human rights. By Alexandra Spieldoch, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy- IATP. IGTN-IATP commom project. March, 2007.
• Key note addressed at the Banulacht International Women's Day Conference - Dublin. By Liepollo Lebohang Pheko. April, 2006.
• Bankrupt U.S. Economic Policy Forecloses on Women's Human Rights. Edited by Kristin Sampson, Alexandra Spieldoch and Maria Riley. February, 2005.
• Beijing+10 Meets WTO+10: Assessing the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Women's Human Rights. By IGTN, December, 2005.
• When A Terrible Situation Gets Worse: Reflections on Argentina from a Gender Perspective. By Alexandra Speildoch - USGTN. July, 2002.
• Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in the EU Enlargement. An Opportunity for Progress. By Silke Steinhilber. September 1, 2002
• The Impact of Globalisation on Human Rights, Women and Good Governance. By Roseline Nyman. November, 2001.
• A Preliminary Enquiry into Impacts of Trade Liberalizatopn on Women in Zambia. By GENTA. September, 2001.

Additional articles are available online in the IGTN Resource Library.