THE IMPACT OF THE WTO RETALIATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Intan Innayatun Soeparna * Abstract World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system through Panel and Ap- pellate Body, allows sanction to be imposed when a member is unwilling to bring a WTO- inconsistent trade measure into conformity. According to the Article 22 of Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), if in a certain case WTO Panel fnds a party has failed to make new policy in compliance with the WTO rules, the aggrieved party is entitled to obtain retaliation. The WTO retaliation emerges negative impact for some countries in particular developing or small economic countries. This impact denotes the violation of international human rights law, particularly economic rights that stipulate in Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( ICESCR). This paper explains the impact that arises when WTO retaliation is imposed to a country whether a developed or developing country, from the perspective of international human rights law. Key words: WTO Retaliation, Impact, Economic Rights, International Human Rights suspension of concession with respect to the same sector, another sector under the same agreement or other sectors under another agreement. Generally this is called WTO retaliation. Article 22 of DSU states that if a coun- try member that lost the dispute fails to com- ply with the decision of Panels and Appellate Body within a period of time, the country that wins the dispute will be able to seek authorization from the Dispute Settlement Body (hereinafter DSB) to suspend certain duties of the WTO system against the losing country in question. The principles and pro- A. Introduction The World Trade Organization (here- inafter WTO) dispute settlement system through Panels and the Appellate Body, al- lows sanctions to be imposed when a mem- ber is unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity with WTO law. According to Article 22 of Understand- ing on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (hereinafter DSU), a party that has failed to bring its rules of poli- cy into conformity with WTO rules will be faced with an aggrieved party that is entitled to obtain compensation or to suspend con- cessions. This party is entitled to impose the * The original version of this paper was submitted as research paper for PhD Program at Vrije Universiteit Brus- sels, Belgium, under supervision of Prof. Kim Van der Borght. The author is International Law lecturer at Faculty of Law University of Airlangga Surabaya. PhD candidate at Faculty of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.