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    Fair Trade: Gender Makes the Difference

    World Conservation Union, 2004
    Fair trade is crucial for sustainable development. It provides better trading conditions to marginalised producers and workers, particularly women. This short briefing note outlines the importance of ensuring that fair trade initiatives incorporate a gender perspective.
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    Gender Primer of Trade and Investment Policies

    2002
    What are the policy measures put in place by governments to regulate international trade, and how do they relate to gender roles and relationships? This primer firstly makes the case for looking at gender in the context of trade, arguing that trade has different impacts on men and women, and that men and women respond differently to trade policies.
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    Trade Editorial

    Oxfam, 2004
    This issue of Oxfam's journal Gender and Development looks at two key linkages between gender and trade. Firstly it explores how international trade relies on an unequal division of labour between women and men, and secondly, how trade agreements have impacts on gender equality within national contexts.
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    Understanding Global Trade and Human Rights, Report and Resource Guide for National Human Rights NGOs in view of the 2005 WTO Ministerial Conference, Hong Kong

    2005
    What are the links between human rights and trade? How can human rights advocates reconcile the gap between their agenda and trade liberalisation? This report aims to increase understanding of the dynamics of global trade and the World Trade Organization (WTO) amongst human rights activists and to equip them with practical strategies for making human rights arguments in the trade arena.
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    BRIDGE Report 42: Global Trade Expansion and Liberalisation: Gender Issues and Impacts

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
    Do women work more or less when countries trade more? Do trade expansion and economic liberalisation affect women and men in different ways'? Case studies from Ghana, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Jamaica are used in this report to illustrate some of the gender dimensions relating to trade.
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    Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains

    Oxfam, 2004
    What are the difficulties faced by the predominantly female workforce at the end of global supply chains for fruit, vegetables and clothing which are dominated by powerful multinational corporations? This Oxfam report outlines these difficulties.
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    Labour and Social Issues Relating to Export Processing Zones, Report for discussion in the Tripartite Meeting of Export-Processing Zone-Operating Countries

    International Labour Organization, 1998
    It is now widely understood that women make up the majority of workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) - areas dedicated to the mass production of export commodities such as garments and electrical goods in large factories. The labour and social concerns of female workers differ from those of men.
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    Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policy-makers and Other Stakeholders

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004
    What is the relationship between gender inequality and work in the informal economy? How do we promote good working conditions for poor and vulnerable groups? Street vendors, workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and small farmers are quite visible in the informal economy.
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    Enhancing Women Entrepreneurship Through Export Growth - Issues and Solutions

    International Trade Centre, 2004
    Why are many women involved in local entrepreneurship activities yet very few involved in the export sector? Given the number of enterprises headed by women and their contribution to national economies, the capacity of women to contribute to economic growth is not being maximised.
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    Women in the Global Economy

    International Trade Centre, 2003
    Women make up the majority of entrepreneurs in 'marginal' economic areas such as micro enterprises and the informal economy. But these make up a large percentage of total economic activity in many poor countries. Yet women's roles as producers and consumers of goods and services and providers of employment are often invisible.

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