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India FTAs & women

First FTA that aims to narrow the gender gap
8-Oct-2025 The New Indian Express
In a first for India, its free trade pact with the UK includes a chapter supporting women’s participation in supply chains. The countries agreed to set up a working group to ensure women are prioritised in procurement, digital trade, and innovation initiatives.
Gender equality key feature in FTAs
26-May-2025 Hindustan Times
India’s free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United Kingdom and the European Union include specific provisions aimed at promoting women’s economic empowerment and gender equality, unlocking around $500 billion in trade opportunities by 2030.
Proposed EU-India FTA
30-Jun-2023 Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Can India protect its development objectives by signing a free trade agreement with an unequal partner with different ambitions?
India-Canada free trade pact may include new areas such as labour, environment, gender
17-May-2023 The Hindu BusinessLine
Negotiations on the Early Progress Trade Agreement are at an advanced stage for many sectors, say officials.
Dalit women: we’re fighting RCEP
6-Nov-2017 bilaterals.org
Dalit people are the poorest people in India and would be among the most affected by RCEP.
‘RCEP will hit economically backward women the most’
25-Jul-2017 The Hindu
Worst hit will be families with female heads, 23 million of which are in rural areas.
Hyderabad: NGOs hold protest against RCEP talks
25-Jul-2017 The Times of India
NGOs from across the country protested in Hyderabad against the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership talks being held in Hyderabad.
Women up in arms against Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
25-Jul-2017 The Hans India
At a rally held in Hyderabad, women from different parts of India marched along with other marginalised communities to protest the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Women farmers take out rally to oppose RCEP free trade agreement
24-Jul-2017 Social Post
Women from different parts of India marched along with other marginalised communities to protest the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the mega Free Trade Agreement which is currently being negotiated in India.
Stop trading workers’ rights over profits
8-May-2017 Forum on FTAs
RCEP magnifies existing inequalities and discriminates against women, indigenous peoples, people living with HIV or other illnesses, people with disabilities,rural communities, farmers and workers
Women rally against EU-India Free Trade Agreement
26-Feb-2013 e-Pao.net
A public rally-cum-public meeting against the European Union-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was organized at Namoi Khun yesterday wherein hundreds of people took part.
EU-India FTA: Impacts on women
18-Mar-2010 CENTAD
CENTAD, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, have come out recently with 4 reports on trade and gender. The first is a backgrounder (literature review) while the other three are on the gender impact of the EU-India FTA in the fields of agriculture, services and health.
Unequal partners
4-Jun-2009 Women on Air
Conversations on the EU-India FTA
Supachai: ‘An India-China FTA will be better than an India-US FTA’
10-Mar-2008 Financial Express
Interview with the UN Conference on Trade & Development’s secretary-general, and former WTO chief, Supachai Panitchpakdi.
Economic growth without social justice: EU-India trade negotiations and their implications for social development and gender justice
5-Nov-2007
This paper attempts to place the EU-India FTA negotiations in their historical and topical context, and questions the coherence between the development aid agenda on the one hand, and the trade and investment agenda on the other.