The ethics of speech and the right to democracy in world decision-making bodies: the case of the WTO

Abstract

The present article seeks the critical understanding of the decision-making making processes within the World Trade Organization as a privileged locus of the discussion of cross - border environmental issues that emerge from the commercial controversies between countries. The need for the ethical element as the basis for the exercise of the right to democracy, considered as a fundamental human right indispensable in the formulation of development policies, is also discussed, given the replacement of politics by markets at the international level in the wake of the globalization process of the sustainable development on a planetary scale. To do so, the hypothetical-deductive method based on explanatory and qualitative research is used, based on the bibliographic review.