WIDE Publications

The EU's responsibility at the WTO: Environment, gender and development 

This report by Friends of the Earth Europe and WIDE addresses WTO negotiations in the areas of agriculture, non-agricultural market access, services and trade and environment - taking into consideration the outcome of the ten year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform of Action, the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. It highlights issues such as the selling-out of natural resources under the WTO, the importance of people's food sovereignty, the gender dimension of the trade agenda and biosafety.
Moreover, it includes an assessment of the outcome of the Hong Kong Ministerial meeting from gender and environmental perspectives

March 2006, (Euro 8.00).
To download the publication click here.