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This document demonstrates how trade and investment laws at the multilateral level either block or inhibit action to protect and promote the public interest. The chart illustrates a series of trade and financial agreements or institutions on the vertical axis, and then describes how each curtails the realization of public policy goals in one of four areas, set out along the horizontal axis: environment, human rights, health and food and agriculture. The authors of this table believe societies need a new contract for globalization that prioritizes respect for human rights and the protection of environmental resources, rather than commercial gain.