WTO Public Forum 2018 – IGC Trade Impact Group Events

The Trade Impact Group is organizing a series of interconnected events that continue the Buenos Aires Declaration on Women and Trade conversation at the WTO Public Forum. 'Aligning Gender, Rights and Trade'; 'Data and Statistics for Gender-Responsive Trade Policy'; 'Placing Business Women at the Heart of the Trading System: Innovative Models at Work'; 'Disrupting the Gender Digital Divide: What Role for International Trade Policy?'
October 02, 2018 @ 15:30

Aligning Gender, Rights and Trade: Towards an inclusive resilient trading system

The World Bank, CEDAW Experts, Canada and Women@theTable discuss aligning gender, human rights and trade and how to make the system more resilient and inclusive at the WTO Public Forum. An IGC Trade Impact Group event.
October 02, 2018 @ 15:30

Women constructing peace in Colombia. Dialogues of knowledge, gender and local practices in the post-agreements

The final peace agreements in Colombia were signed in 2016 after more that fifty years of war. While enormous challenges to implement them remain, multiple local gendered practices of peace construction can be observed.
October 02, 2018 @ 09:00
Women Entrepreneurs in Global Value Chains: Trade Impact Group Workshop #3

Women Entrepreneurs in Global Value Chains: Trade Impact Group Workshop #3

Hosted by the Republic of Korea under the MIKTA group framework at the WTO with the IGC Trade Impact Group - Room W
October 01, 2018 @ 14:00

Women Without Walls

This exhibition focuses on women experiencing homelessness and illustrates the specific needs of women experiencing homelessness and why a gender-neutral approach often fails to support women.
October 01, 2018 @ 09:00

Empowering Women in the Creative Industries

Panel discussion organized by WIPO
September 28, 2018 @ 13:00

Gender-Responsive Assemblies – An agenda for concrete action

IGC Interactive panel discussion & toolkit launch
September 28, 2018 @ 11:30

Gender equality: why is it so difficult to achieve?

Lecture by Professor Joan Wallach Scott, first female recipient of the Edgar de Picciotto International Prize, author of 'Gender and the Politics of History'
September 25, 2018 @ 18:30

“You are missing the full picture: Libyan Women's recommendations"

Human Rights Council side-event organized by UN Women, WILPF, Together We Build It Libya
September 25, 2018 @ 15:30