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Most recent WIDE newsletter with news from April, download here.

WIDE and EU Free Trade Negotiations: Seattle2Brussels organises a week of strategy and action 6-11 April, April Newsletter 2008
WIDE at the UN Monterrey Consensus Informal Review Session on Aid, including Women's Working Group statement around the Session, April Newsletter 2008
IGTN responds to UNCTAD XII: more progress is needed in macro-economic policy that actually works for women, April Newsletter 2008
Level of development aid is declining ´dangerously´, April Newsletter 2008
European Parliament calls on the EU to do much more for gender equality in development cooperation, April Newsletter 2008

UN 52nd Commission of the Status of Women

WIDE and the CSW: Adequate aid through increasing aid a condition to achieve gender equality, WIDE newsletter March 2008
WIDE and the CSW: The CSW as a tool to influence governments, WIDE newsletter March 2008
WIDE and the CSW: Watered-down agreed conclusions, WIDE newsletter March 2008
WIDE Position paper for the fifty-second session of the Commission of the Status of Women on 'Financing for gender equality and women´s empowerment'.
The Draft agreed conclusions of the 52nd CSW, the final agreed conclusions and the EU statement accompanying the final conclusions.

February 2008: Women NGO meeting around Aid Effectiveness

Women´s NGO Consultation Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 31 January ­ 2 February 2008, co-organised by WIDE. Read the brief report and the recommendations, February 2008

SERIES Case studies in Women's Empowerment from the West, South and East

Occasional Paper series

The aim of the series is to publish new research and policy analysis on key issues emerging from the processes of economic globalisation and the countervailing forces of women´s resistance and alternatives. More information.
First paper: 'South-American Integration: UNASUL and ALBA ­ Alternative Integration Processes', Graciela Rodriguez, WIDE January 2008 

New publications

Full Report available of WIDE consultation 'EU bilateral and regional free trade agreements­ bringing women to the centre of the debate', 22 November 2007, Brussels, Belgium.

Who decides - Gender mapping the European Union´s policy and decision-making in the areas of development, external relations and trade, Maria Karadenizli, WIDE November 2007.

This publication provides an analysis of the role that key European Union institutions ­ the Council of Ministers, the European Commission (EC), the EC Delegations, and the European Parliament (EP) ­ play in the definition of policy priorities in the areas of development, external relations and trade. The study critically analyses the role of these actors in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of development programmes in the countries of the South, as well as in negotiations on trade agreements at international, regional and bilateral levels.

Download the publication and further information such as on to order a paper copy.

WIDE publication 'EU-India trade negotiations and their implications for social development and gender justice', November 2007. Available as download.

WIDE and its platforms

WIDE expresses concern about long delay and the highly political and polarizing process around which the UN made the appointment of the new UNIFEM Executive Director, download statement as PDF, April 2008

WIDE regional platform KARAT: "Fair Play ­ always in fashion", WIDE newsletter March 2008
WIDE contributes to EC Communication on Policy Coherence for Development, February 2008

Workshop on gender and the EU-India FTA, New Delhi, India, 25-26 March, co-organised by WIDE.
European Feminist Forum meeting in Poland 13-15 June 2008, cancelled

Austrian organisations´ position on EU Common Agricultural Policy initiatives, January 2008, WIDE newsletter 
Let´s talk about men: Report of Dutch WIDE platform meeting, January 2008, WIDE newsletter 

WIDE participated in the Civil Society Forum on the Europe-Africa Dialogue, which took place inLisbon from 15 to 17 November 2007. Download here the WIDE-FEMNET presentation.

WIDE on the road to 2008, WIDE newsletter, December 2007. 
Celebrating WIDE Austria, WIDE newsletter, October 2007.

 

WIDE monitoring (WTO and other)

Ukraine´s accession to the WTO paved way for the launch of EU-Ukraine FTA negotiations, WIDE newsletter, February 2008
Doha Round negotiations ­ yet another moment of truth, WIDE newsletter, February 2008

The case of policy coherence development in the European Development Days, WIDE newsletter, December 2007. 
JOINT CSO STATEMENT around EU-Africa Summit "betraying Africa", Lisbon, 8-9 December, WIDE newsletter, December 2007. 

 

WIDE Annual Conference

WIDE Annual Conference 2008 will be held in The Hague, the Netherlands, in early October or late September 2008

WIDE Annual Conference 2007: 'New aid, expanding trade - what do feminists have to say?, WIDE press release, June 2007 WIDE Annual Conference 2007 Presentations and programme

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