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Gender Focus on the WTO
Author: Haxton, E. and Olsson, C. (eds)
Date: 1999
Publisher: Global Publications Foundation

Short Summary: There is abundant research on the subject that proves that trade rules and agreements affect women and men differently. This book offers a series of articles presenting some of these findings and testimonies about action to address the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) current gender blindness. For example one chapter by Grace Ongile outlines a gender aware research agenda for East Africa looking at the impact of new trade policies in the region. Other chapters are concerned with the struggles of various organisations lobbying the WTO and suggest strategies and mechanisms to improve the gender awareness of the WTO. Targeting the WTO's Trade Policy Review Mechanism is one point of entry. Impact assessments and evaluations of trade liberalisation and WTO rules with a focus on women in developing countries should be conducted and the information made publicly available. In fact the WTO needs to promote transparency and improved access to information concerning all their work.