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Asia-Pacific women groups gather in Bangkok and discuss digital trade
4-Oct-2022 bilaterals.org
Women in the Asia and Pacific discussed FTAs and agricultural digitalisation impacting women.
How to break the bias in Canada’s gender and trade agenda
9-Mar-2022 The Monitor
How the government measures “inclusive trade” may undermine the policy’s feminist goals.
Briefers on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) vs Women’s Human Rights
1-Mar-2022 APWLD
APWLD is launching new Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) vs Women’s Human Rights briefers which elaborate on how ISDS is incompatible with human rights principles.
Lessons from the struggle against the FTAA: continental unity to fight free trade
24-Nov-2021 Capire
Grassroots movements from the Americas have accumulated experiences and a history of struggles for sovereignty and integration.
Fighting for food sovereignty in Kenya and Uganda
20-Sep-2021 Water Savvy Solutions
Special podcast about the implications of free trade for African women, especially from a food sovereignty perspective.
The people of Asia against free trade: “society endures the trauma of debt”
13-Sep-2021 Capire
The struggle against free trade has been strategic for social movements, especially La Via Campesina, which has actually built a proposal for food sovereignty to counter the capitalist free trade model for agriculture.
First labor rights claim under the revised NAFTA filed by migrant worker women in the US — what does it mean in terms of the new labor rulebook in the region?
7-Apr-2021 Public Citizen
The complaint represents many organizations’ intentions to test if the revised NAFTA’s labor terms could be an effective tool to improve workers’ conditions.
Women file complaint over gender discrimination in US temporary work programs
26-Mar-2021 Fronteras
A group of Mexican migrant worker women have used the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to launch a complaint over discrimination in temporary labor programs.
What is RCEP and why are Trade Unions in the Asia-Pacific Region concerned about It?
18-Nov-2020 News Click
Even as the new agreement between ASEAN nations and its free trade partners establishes the largest trading bloc in the world, it is vehemently being opposed by labor unions, trade justice groups and women’s movements
Women’s rights groups angered on decision to sign RCEP
15-Nov-2020 APWLD
Women’s movement from Asia and the Pacific is angered by the decision of ASEAN and its five trading partners to sign RCEP. The trade agreement will cover 30% of the world’s population and women farmers, women workers and women-led small enterprises will be the worst hit from this trade agreement.
Women’s movement across Asia and the Pacific demand #NoRCEP
13-Nov-2020 APWLD
As the 10 ASEAN countries and their 5 trading partners get ready to sign the anti-people trade deal, the countries must conduct social and human rights impact analysis on RCEP before signing or ratifying it.
Creating a feminist alliance for trade justice
14-Jul-2020 Open Global Rights
Trade liberalisation is incompatible with women’s human rights and gender equality when corporations exploit women’s cheap labour as a source of comparative advantage.
What do FTAs mean for African women? A critical look into the African Continental Free Trade Area
9-Jul-2020 GRAIN
What does this trade deal mean for African women and their role in the continent’s food production and trade?
Blueprint for a human rights impact assessment of the planned comprehensive free trade agreement between EFTA and Mercosur
24-Jan-2020 Alliance Sud
This study assesses the impact of the EFTA-Mercosur free trade agreement on access to medicines, indigenous rights and women rights.
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership spells danger for 1.1 billion women
7-Jan-2020 John Menadue
Australia has yet to show any serious interest in recognising the potential negative impacts of trade policies on gender or take steps to systematically assess these. A gender equitable trade policy is possible. But it would look nothing like the RCEP.
Free Trade Agreements are fueling and shaping the oppression and injustice against women
28-Oct-2019 Bilaterals.org
Women gathering resulted in several demands from the grassroots women, urging the new elected government of Indonesia to stop negotiating FTAs. Women demand “no more FTAs"
Women’s rights vs corporate rights
2-May-2019 Indybay
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, known as ’RCEP,’ is a huge free trade agreement with potentially dire consequences for millions of women around the world.
Call for proposals: Women interrogating trade & corporate hegemony feminist participatory action research (WITCH FPAR) 2019-2020
17-Apr-2019
Indonesian women’s group reject RCEP
25-Feb-2019 People Over Profit
Intervention from Retno Dewi of Indonesian women’s organization SERUNI during the RCEP Stakeholders Consultation for the 25th RCEP TNC Meeting in Westin Hotel, Bali, Indonesia.
RCEP has human rights concerns: Women’s groups
24-Jul-2018 APWLD
The women’s groups strongly reject RCEP as it reinforces a destructive development model that the existing free trade agreements and the policies of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation have inflicted upon the world’s poor and particularly poor women.