Geneva, March 14 -- A side event during the 61st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council will focus on Pakistan's Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus status and the human rights obligations attached to it.

The discussion is scheduled to take place at the United Nations in Geneva on March 25.

Titled "Pakistan's GSP+ status: human rights conditionality, treaty obligations and accountability," the one-hour panel will examine the relationship between trade preferences granted by the European Union and compliance with international human rights conventions.

Under the EU's GSP+ framework, beneficiary countries receive preferential market access in return for ratifying and implementing a set of core international treaties relate...