Gender and (EU) trade

UN-CSW side event: “Ensuring gender just trade: Challenges and ways forward”

Posted by wideplusnetworkon March 13, 2019July 27, 2021in Gender and Trade, Meetings and Workshops

Happening today at the UN CSW: "Ensuring gender just trade: Challenges and ways forward". Side event jointly organized by UNCTAD and the Gender and Trade Coalition with the support of OWIT and WIDE+, 13 March 2019, UN building, Room D,…

WIDE+ Publication on gender equality instruments in Trade available

Posted by wideplusnetworkon December 6, 2018May 15, 2019in Gender and Trade

The WIDE+ publication: "instruments for gender equality in trade agreements" , for the EU, Mercosur and Mexico, from 2001 online, showing that gender and trade has a longstanding record of research done: 0692_001 (part 1) 0692_018(part 2) 0692_035 (part3)

New WIDE+ Briefing Paper on transforming EU Trade Policy to protect Women’s Rights (EN, DE, ES, FR)

Posted by wideplusnetworkon December 6, 2018May 15, 2019in Analysis, Feminist Economics, Gender and Development, Reports and Publications

Policy makers in and outside Europe have since 2017 discovered a gender divide in the trade policy and are starting to introduce specific policies to promote women’s economic empowerment. However these new policies and reflections fall short of a trade…