05/06/09: In March 2009, EEPA produced a study on the application of the right to development criteria to the ACP-EU (Cotonou) Partnership Agreement and the economic partnership agreements (EPAs). The study, which was commissioned by the UN's High-level Task Force on the Right to Development in the context of its periodic evaluation of global development partnerships, was presented at the fifth session of the High-Level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development on 1-9 April in Geneva.

• Click here to read EEPA's report on the application of the right to development criteria to the Cotonou Partnership Agreement
• Click here to read some background information about the right to development
• Click here to read the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development