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UNCTAD & Gender
Gender
issues represent a strong consideration in UNCTAD’s work, whether it is through
the analysis of the impact of trade on women’s lives – but also their effective
participation in trade and trade policies; better integration of women in the
economy through the establishment of appropriate measures that can enhance
gender equality; balancing the uneven effects of globalization and trade
liberalization on women; or identifying the gender inequalities that make women
more vulnerable to climate change. Most recently, during the 3rd Global Congress on Women in Politics and Governance,
held in
UNCTAD, who has an official mandate to mainstream gender throughout its
work, played an active role in the Interagency Task Force on Gender and
Trade, which brings together the Food & Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO), International Labour Organization (ILO), Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), United Nations Development Fund
for Women (UNIFEM), UN regional commissions, World Bank and the World Trade
Organization.
To foster further discussion on gender and
trade issues, UNCTAD will convene an Expert Group Meeting on “Mainstreaming
Gender in Trade Policy” in March 2009 in
“The objective of
promoting gender equality in international trade relations – the core of the
trade and gender debate – is one of the cornerstones of the reflections and
efforts to achieve an inclusive form of globalization, or in the words of the
ILO World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, a ‘globalization
which puts people first; which respects human dignity and equal worth of every
human being.’ Indeed, gender equality is a shared goal of humanity, enshrined
as a fundamental human right in the United Nations Charter and many other
international conventions and declarations.”
Extracted from Trade and Gender
Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries:
http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/edm20042_en.pdf
Additional Resources
Mainstreaming Gender
into Trade and Development Strategies in
Moving towards Gender
Sensitisation of Trade Policy, 2008:
http://www.unctad.org/sections/ditc_dir/docs//ditctncd20082_en.pdf
UNCTAD’s Climate Change Programme: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/StartPage.asp?intItemID=4342&lang=1
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