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    Women's Rights and the Multilateral Trading System: The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming at the WTO

    Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004
    How can the differential impacts that trade has on women and men be effectively addressed? What are the most appropriate mechanisms for incorporating gender into trade policy? This conference report points to the lack of mechanisms to hold the WTO to account for women's rights.
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    Trade, Skills and Persistence of Gender Gap: A Theoretical Framework for Policy Discussion

    2003
    Why do conventional formulations of the benefits of international trade fall short in their capacity to address persistent gender inequality?
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    Engendering Policy Coherence for Development: Gender Issues for the Global Policy

    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2005
    How can a policy coherence framework contribute to gender-sensitive policy making? This report is for policy-makers, trade unionists, business people and civil society organisations.
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    Free Trade or Fair Trade: An overview of the WTO and the Myths Surrounding It

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2003
    Is free trade always fair on women? What are the main links between gender and trade? This discussion paper explores the links between WTO sectoral agreements and gender and describes the position shared by DAWN and civil society organisations on the Cancun meeting.
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    Gender Issues and Concerns in Financing for Development

    2004
    This background paper uses a gendered approach to examine the development financing strategies endorsed in the 2002 Monterrey Consensus document. The analysis points out that little recognition is given to the social costs and adverse consequences of the market-liberalization policies underlying much of the International Conference on Financing for Development (ICFfD) recommended actions.
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    Notes on the gender perspective in financing for development and the Monterrey consensus

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2004
    Since 2000, the international community has reached three fundamental agreements on financing for development: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); the IV Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), better known as the Doha Round (2001); and the Final Declaration of the International Conference on Financing for Development (ICFfD), know as the Monterrey Consensus (2002).
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    Women, Equity Gaps and Labour Market

    2004
    What are the gender gaps in employment in Chile? How deep are they? This study looks at inequality between Chilean women and men in employment.
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    Gender and Internal Migration - Considerations and Challenges (presentation for Regional Conference on Migration and Development in Asia)

    International Organization for Migration, 2005
    Internal migration far exceeds cross-border migration, both in China and globally. There is both legally authorised and irregular migration internally as well as internationally.
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    Fact Sheet: Gender and Migration

    International Organization for Migration, 2002
    How does gender shape the different experiences of migrant women and men? Gender can have a greater effect on experiences of migration than country of origin or destination, age, class, race or culture. Migrant women now account for almost 50 per cent of migrants and are increasingly migrating as individuals rather than as dependants of other family members.
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    Engendering Canadian Trade Policy: A Case Study of Labour Mobility in Trade Agreements

    Status of Women Canada, 2004
    This study provides a gender analysis of Canada's commitments under labour mobility agreements associated with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) (mode 4). These agreements intend to support increased cross-border trade and investment by facilitating the movement of high-skilled workers, business managers and executives.

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