GTC at 70th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70)

As people feel the detrimental effects of fundamentally inadequate governance regimes on their lives, livelihoods, and the environment, resistance to free trade agreements has grown. Women have been at the forefront of these resistance efforts, informed by their experiences as the people most impacted by "successful" neoliberal policies.

On 17 March 2026, the Gender and Trade Coalition, along with co-convenors FEMNET, Regions Refocus, and Third World Network, organized a virtual parallel event to the 70th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) entitled “Building Feminist Alliances for Trade Justice: Towards Radical Economic Healing & Rebuilding.” 

This interactive workshop built on the GTC’s series of feminist trade explainers to help participants understand how the issues they organize around – such as gender, climate, and (post)-conflict  – are connected to global trade and why trade is a feminist issue. 

Speakers included:

• Mariama Williams,  Global Afro-Descendant Climate Justice Collaborative.
• Ranja Sengupta, Third World Network. 
• Nela Porobić Isaković, Feminist Anti-Militarist Collective.
• Erica Levenson, Regions Refocus. 
• Moderated by Grace Namugabe, FEMNET.

Watch the recording here.