e-2247 (International trade)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- UN statistics confirm that areas within the Tibetan Autonomous Regions (TAR) remain the poorest in all of China;
- Tibetans experience ongoing and systemic discrimination in respect to economic opportunity, labour rights and gender equality;
- Tibetans continue to be disadvantaged by their ethnicity, lower education levels and lack of fluency in the Chinese language;
- Tibetans have little or no access to information about trade agreements which directly impact them and no input into those agreements; and
- All states, as part of their human right obligations are expected to undertake human rights due to diligence in all areas of endeavour including the negotiation of trade agreements and other economic agreements.
- Open for signature
- June 17, 2019, at 9:17 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- September 15, 2019, at 9:17 a.m. (EDT)