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  Empowering women migrant workers

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  Using a gender- and rights-based approach, UNIFEM seeks to empower migrant workers within and from Asia. It works on creating enabling policies, institutional and socioeconomic environments that ensure women equality of opportunity, and access to resources and benefits, throughout the migration process.
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  Strategies and approaches for gender mainstreaming in international trade

  International Trade Centre, 2001

  As women must still negotiate family and work responsibilities, they tend to engage in more informal sector or home-based work. Women's equal participation in trading activities is further hampered by concerns such as difficulty accessing capital, lack of relevant training and skills or limited contacts with national and international trade networks.
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  Trade liberalisation policy

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  Trade liberalisation (decreasing restrictions on trade) has taken place through several policy frameworks over the past ten years. In addition to the rules of the WTO, trade liberalisation has also been a key factor of World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes. Advocates of such policies argue that trade liberalisation should increase a country's growth and incomes.
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  Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2003

  Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.
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  Trade and gender: opportunities and challenges for developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  Trade has both positive and negative effects on gender equality. For example, it may bring new employment and business opportunities. However, existing inequalities, such as low skills and gendered divisions of labour mean that any adverse effects of trade liberalisation - including impacts on the labour market and working conditions - are felt more by women.
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  WTO TRIPS Agreement

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  The TRIPS agreement is an overarching framework for a multilateral approach to intellectual property rights (IPR), in force since 1996. TRIPS means that use of plants, micro-organisms, biotechnological techniques, food and essential drugs can be restricted under patent protection.
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  Gender Inequality in a Globalising World

  The Levy Economics Institute, 2005

  In the last two decades, macroeconomic policies and development strategies have increasingly pursued the goals of liberalisation and global economic integration, deeply affecting the lives of women and men across the globe.
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  New Hope or False Dawn? Voluntary Codes of Conduct, Labour Regulation and Social Policy in a Globalising World

  SAGE Publications, 2001

  The notion that international corporations have a responsibility towards social development and policy is relatively new, and reflects the extended global reach of transnational corporations.
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  Gender equality and trade-related capacity building: a resource tool for practitioners

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2005

  This publication is aimed at CIDA officers, partners, and development practitioners internationally. It provides a tool to ensure that the differential impact of trade on women and men is understood, and that men and women are able to benefit equally from the new opportunities created by trade liberalisation.
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  Framework for the integration of women in APEC

  Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, 2005

  APEC activities related to trade and investment liberalisation and facilitation and economic and technical cooperation are closely inter-linked and have major implications for women. Women are recognised as critical to the achievement of sustainable economic development in the region - and women's unpaid work constitutes a major contribution to the economy.

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