This series of feminist trade ‘explainer’ articles unpacks critical trade issues in a Q&A format. Topics covered by explainers include gender, post-conflict recovery, migration, and climate.
A GTC event at the 15th Association for Women's Rights in Development International Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, on 3 December, 2024.
The Gender and Trade Coalition was initiated by feminist and progressive activists to advance feminist trade analysis and advocate for equitable trade policy. We stand in opposition to neoliberal co-optation of women's human rights as a means to open markets and expand an unjust trade system which exploits the global South alongside workers and oppressed peoples worldwide.
La première publication d’une série de notes d’orientation examinant des accords commerciaux clés dans une perspective féministe, dans le but de rendre les impacts de ces accords compréhensibles pour un large public.
Read moreEsta publicação é a primeira de uma série de policy briefs que examinam acordos comerciais-chave sob uma perspectiva feminista, com o objetivo de tornar os impactos desses acordos compreensíveis para um público amplo.
Read moreLa primera publicación de una serie de informes de política que examinan acuerdos comerciales clave desde una perspectiva feminista, con el objetivo de hacer comprensibles los impactos de dichos acuerdos para un público amplio.
Read moreThe first publication in a series of policy briefs unpacking key trade agreements from a feminist perspective, with the aim of making the impacts of these agreements legible to a broad audience.
Read moreA submission by the GTC to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Call for Inputs on the Impact of Trade Agreements on Women’s Economic Empowerment.
Read moreA GTC statement to the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation, taking place between 26-29 March 2026, in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
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The first Steering Group, constituted in May 2019, replaced an initial interim working group following the adoption of a governance framework. Currently, the Coalition comprises 342 members, 13 Steering Group members, and 2 Co-chairs of which Regions Refocus serves as the GTC Secretariat.
Sanila Gurung is the Women Interrogating Trade and Corporate Hegemony Program Officer at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD).
Read moreEdmé Dominguez is WIDE+’s representative in the European Union Domestic Advisory Groups with American countries.
Read moreNicole Maloba is the Economic Justice and Rights Lead at the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET).
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