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New (Dutch) publication from WIDE+, WO=MEN, Action Aid and Both Ends on how through trade policy women have become a bargain deal for large transnational companies

Posted by wideplusnetworkon November 20, 2019November 20, 2019in Analysis, Feminist Economics, Gender and Trade, Reports and Publications

This publication addresses the connections between the international trade policy of the Netherlands and gender equality and women's rights, through analyzing how this policy is benefiting large (transnational) companies that can make use of women's labour and environmental resources of…

WIDE+ workshop: ‘Trade, digital Economy and Women’s access to Decent work’, at the WTO Public Forum, Friday 11 October 2019

Posted by wideplusnetworkon October 4, 2019October 4, 2019in Gender and Trade, Meetings and Workshops

The global digitalization is challenging the shape of formal labour, but the current trade policy discourse doesn’t look at what is happening currently with women in these kind of jobs across the world, especially women in services and in agriculture.…

WIDE+ endorses Beijing+25 Framework: “Women Radically Transforming a World in Crisis”

Posted by wideplusnetworkon October 3, 2019in Feminist Solidarities, Statements and Petitions

WIDE+ endorsed a radical, urgent vision for the “Beijing+25” conference in Mexico City in May 2020 and Paris in July 2020. At the invitation of the Mexican government, a group of feminist activists from diverse regions and social movements gathered in…