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a report on the proceedings of the Conference, WTO+10 meets Beijing+10 : the impacts of trade liberalization on women's human rights in the U.S.
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- Sampson, Kristin > (ed.)
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- Spieldoch, Alexandra > (ed.)
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- Riley, Maria > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2004
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- digitaal
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- handel, liberalisme, werkgelegenheid, sociale zekerheid, landbouw, voedselproductie, veiligheid, autonomie, gender mainstreaming, gelijke behandeling, overheidsbeleid, wereldvrouwenconferenties, Verenigde Staten, Mexico, Canada, congresverslag
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- This document presents the findings of the conference within the context of a broader critique of economic .liberalization which includes limited reference to the experiences of Canada and Mexico. The paper contains background information on the Beijing Platform for Action, U.S. governmental and NGO involvement in .the UN 4th World Conference on Women, an overview of trade liberalization, sections on employment, access to services, agriculture and food security, and national sovereignty. Each section weaves analysis with excerpts from the presentations given at the November 17th seminar.
learning from Austria, Belgium, and the UK
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- Painter, Genevieve
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- Brown, Emily
- Publish Year
- 2004
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- digitaal
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- handel, gender mainstreaming, overheidsbeleid, internationale politiek, Oostenrijk, België, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- An overview of the relationship between trade and gender inequality is given. Discussed is gender segregation of labour, informalisation of women's employment through sub-contracting, increases in gender wage gaps, reductions in women's access to health and education, inequality in access to credit, land, property and deepening the feminisation of poverty.
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- Keating, Maree > (ed.)
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- Leigh, Erin
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- 2004
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- digitaal
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- gender mainstreaming, ontwikkelingssamenwerking, handel, China, Botswana, Afrika, Caraïbisch gebied, Oceanië, bundel
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- The articles in this book deal with the ways gender and other social inequalities work together to support and facilitate the unsustainable 'race to bottom', which now characterises the global supply system. Discussed is the possibility for a global trading system to work as part of an international regime of rules that could reduce poverty and simultaneously increase equality and opportunities for women. Contents: 'Good jobs' and hidden costs: women workers documenting the price of precarious employment: Global trade and home work: closing the divide: Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China: Being a female entrepreneur in Botswana: Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA: Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?: TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective: Women, trade and migration: Gender, the Doha Development Agenda, and the post-Cancun trade negotiations: Corporate responsibility and women's employment: the case of cashew nuts.
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