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Welcome to Gender & Trade

Source:Flicker.comWelcome to Gender and Trade (G&T), a web based resource platform interlinking research, advocacy and action across the commonwealth countries with the objective of facilitating and promoting gender sensitive trade policies at the national, regional and multilateral levels.

An initiative of the Commonwealth Secretariat in partnership with Gender and  Trade Initiative (GATI) and Department of International Development (DFID), G&T was launched at the 8th triennial meeting of Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting (8WAMM) from 11 to 14 June 2007 at Uganda.

News

• Poverty has a woman’s face – radical change is required

• The year 2011 marks the centenary of International Women’s Day, and the theme of the ILO’s celebrations is: "Making the crisis recovery work for women!"

• UN Women Celebrates Launch as Powerful Driver of Women’s Equality

• ILO's global Gender Network will meet for its annual Inter-Regional Learning Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 12 to 15 April 2010

• WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy debunked some economic myths when he spoke to the Paris School of Economics

• Global 15-year review process in the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women 

 

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Summary of the Joint Commonwealth Secretariat and One World Action Research on the Gender Effect of Economic Partnership Agreements.
 

International Association for Feminist Economics - 2010 Annual Conference

Country Profiles

This is where you can find a wide range of general and specific indicators about each of the 53 Commonwealth member countries.

Commonwealth Countries Factbook

Africa Country Profiles

Case Studies

• Do you know that in Uganda the Water Sector has been able to incorporate gender concerns through strategic planning?More...

• Women act as Backbone of Fishing Activities in Vanuatu. More...

• Sugar exports in Mozambique. More...

• The Barbados Tourism Industry. More...

• Filipino Women in the Rice Industry. More...

 

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