Organisation
Women in Development Europe (WIDE)
Networking organisation with a focus on developments related to Europe
Networking organisation with a focus on developments related to Europe (and its relation to the South), the issue of alternative economics from a gender perspective, and the follow up to the Beijing Summit.
Publishes the WIDE Newsletter (sample issue on WWW)
WWW site has information on aims and members, and full text of policy commentaries
Published Documents
- EU Donors Under Women's Watch
- K Staszewska / Women in Development Europe, 2012
- WIDE checks up on Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda on the road to Busan 2011
- EU Donors under Women’s Watch – WIDE Checks up on Gender equality and women’s rights in the aid effectiveness agenda on the road to Busan
- K Staszewska / Women in Development Europe, 2011
- This policy brief summarises the most important findings of the mapping study based on women’s organisations’ voices carried out by WIDE on EU donors’ compliance with their ownership and mutual accountability commitm...
- Report of the WIDE annual conference 2010 - migration in the context of globalisation: women’s human rights at risk?
- Women in Development Europe, 2011
- Migration and globalisation are key issues for the women’s movement as they are having serious impacts on women’s lives and rights. Women from all corners of the globe including many representatives from European migrant w...
- Women’s labour migration in the context of globalisation
- A Franck; A Spehar / Women in Development Europe, 2010
- What are the current trends in women’s migration and why are they occurring? According to this study, globalisation has led to increased international migration. However, migrants often cannot enjoy the full protection of the ri...
- In Search of Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices from India
- Christa Wichterich (ed) / Women in Development Europe, 2010
- How can we shape an alternative economic and gender just development process? This report is a collection of Indian voices in the form of short essays on economic alternatives for gender and social justice which challenge mainstr...
- A gendered analysis of labour standards and CSR
- A.K. Franck / Women in Development Europe, 2008
- This paper discusses the gendered nature of measures such as international labour standards, decent work approach and corporate social responsibility, and highlights its implications for women workers in developing countries. It is pr...
- Making EU trade policy consistent with environmental sustainability and gender equity
- Women in Development Europe, 2006
- This publication aims to contribute to a constructive dialogue between civil society representatives from the North and the South and representatives from the EU that could feed into an EU trade policy consistent with social and gende...
- Can microcredit for women tackle poverty in the EU?
- Women in Development Europe, 2009
- What are the positive and negative impacts of microcredit on women and what role they can play in tackling poverty in the European Union? This report from a one day workshop considers whether microcredit can really lead to women&rsquo...
- Gender implications of the Chinese trade race
- C. Wichterich / Women in Development Europe, 2008
- China has emerged as a global player and powerhouse on the international trade map. It is however increasingly depicted as a giant economic monster. As the world’s workshop, the country has become one of the main sites for trans...
- How gender is (mis-) used for EU-China trade
- C. Wichterich / Women in Development Europe, 2007
- This paper highlights some critical areas of gender concerns related to EU-China trade: in China, gender differences have been re-discovered in the course of liberalisation, privatisation and the marketisation of the wh...
