Category: Gender and Trade

WIDE+ Comments to the Study commissioned by the EP: ‘The EU’s Trade Policy: from gender blind to gender sensitive’.

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The European Parliament’s INTA (International Trade) Committee discussed at its last meeting held on 22 September 2015 the study commissioned by the EP ‘EU's Trade Policy: from gender blind to gender sensitive’. Joyce Naar represented WIDE+ in this meeting and…

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CSOs should take action against WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement, Newsletter 3, August 2015

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Joyce Naar Despite all protests and concerns member states to the World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded a new set of agreements in December 2013 in Bali, the socalled Bali Package. One of these, the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) will enter…

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The role of TNCs and trade agreements in the recent disaster in Atacama, Chile

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Recently, an active WIDE+ member, Patricia Muñoz, visited the Atacama region in Chile, a region devastated by abnormal rain floods and mud avalanches. There she spoke to women from two nodes of La Via Campesina movement: ANAMURI and RATMURI. ANAMURI…

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