Webinar: “Chaotic Times in global trade: Looking from a gendered lens”
28 May 2025, 12.00 UTC / 2.00 PM CEST via Zoom
The Gender and Trade Coalition, along with convenors Third World Network, WIDE+, FEMNET, Regions Refocus and IT for Change, are pleased to invite you to a webinar entitled ‘Chaotic Times in global trade: Looking from a gendered lens’ on 28 May 2025. It will be held at 12.00 UTC, which is at 9 AM BRT (Rio de Janeiro), 8 AM EDT (New York), 2.00 PM CEST (Geneva), 3.00 PM EAT (Nairobi), 5.30 PM IST (New Delhi).
The webinar will discuss this turbulent episode of global trading system from a gendered lens, to try and understand a bit better what specific impacts may be faced by such marginalized constituencies.
Please register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iswlssOQTa-gJ2_Q5qwWbw
Background
Since April, the world is seeing a massive turmoil in the arena of international trade, triggered by the launch of a set of arbitrary tariffs imposed by the world’s richest country on imports from almost 75 countries, even small island states.
At the same time, while the World Trade Organisation has been no friend of development, the certainty of a multilateral rules-based trading system is in jeopardy. Countries are rushing to sign bilateral trade agreements and competing against friends and foe in the process. Again, these trends adversely affect all Member countries but developing countries even more so.
Marginalized groups are differentially impacted even from general trade rules. But this extreme state of chaos and competition hurts them even more. This is especially true for women and other constituencies which face gender-based discriminations in their economic and social interactions every day. The way they interact with, and are impacted by, the trading system is bound to undergo serious shifts in the current scenario. The webinar intends to use a gendered lens to analyse and understand the impacts of the current global trading space.
Moderated by Anita Nayyar, Regions Refocus
Speakers
Development challenges:
- Kicking where it hurts most: Agriculture and IP issues, Ranja Sengupta, Third World Network
- Work and development in global manufacturing and value chains, Nicole Maloba, FEMNET
- The future of digital policies in the Global South, Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change
View from the regions:
- A regional perspective from Africa, Pauline Vande-Pallen, Third World Network Africa
- European FTAs as a strategy to tackle Trump’s policies, Edme Dominguez, WIDE+
- A view from Latin America, Patricia Munoz Cabrera, WIDE+