WIDE+ gender and trade position paper is available
Priti Darooka
Source: WIDE +
This is an amazing paper done by WIDE +
I am sure you will find it useful
Priti
Dear members,
The WIDE+ Gender and EU Trade Position Paper is available! It is the result of a year long collaborate work in the Gender and Trade Working Group.
There will also be a briefing paper from this –short version- and updates on the European Parliamentarian (EP) process preparing a report on gender and trade coming. We want to share with you already the paper.
This paper critically examines contemporary European Union (EU) trade policy from a feminist perspective. It argues that current EU external trade policy is fundamentally harmful to the human rights of women, men and children and to the preservation of our planet. Its neoliberal core makes livelihoods more precarious, enhances inequalities, fosters financialisation of the economy, reduces access to medicines, undermines food sovereignty, and threatens environmental sustainability.
The paper aims to start uncovering how EU trade policy hinders the protection and promotion of women’s human rights. After a brief analysis of the interrelationships between international trade and women as producers, labourers, consumers, citizens and as environmental managers, the paper makes the following recommendations.
To download: EU_trade_gender_policy_WIDE_Final
WIDE+ also spoke during the Parliamentarian hearing on gender and trade, 11 May, 2017:
https://wideplus.org/2017/05/17/2440/
And if you want to read the current EP Working Document on gender and trade:
best regards,
Gea, member of the WIDE+ gender and trade Working Group