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WIDE Annual Conference 2009 ´WE CARE! Feminist responses to the Care Crises´, 18-­­­20 June 2009, Basel, Switzerland. Download the final programme here. 
You can read more about the conference and contribute to online debate at our blog.  
WIDE Press Release: "WE CARE! Care Economy and care crises!"

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WIDE is launching its Friends in the Media Network! Find out more and join the group!

We are pleased to announce new Section on Microcredit on our web-site! All relevant information connected to the WIDE Conference "Microcredit: an alternative for women's empowerment" can be found here!

WIDE E-newsletter

Most recent WIDE newsletter with news from May Download.

A new approach to development: report from WIDE Microcredit conference, 15 May 2009. WIDE Newsletter, May 2009

Update: FTA negotiations between the EU and India continue. WIDE Newsletter, May 2009

Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference at the end of November, WIDE Newsletter, May 2009

New AidWatch report: European governments fall short on their commitments. WIDE Newsletter, May 2009

A stronger women´s UN entity is a real possibility: join the campaign. WIDE Newsletter, May 2009

News from WIDE

'Time to Act: Women Cannot Wait! A call for rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis' - WWG statement. Read in Spanish.

'High Diplomacy and Fragile Consensus Limit UN to Development Cooperation:No Commitments to Reforming the Financial Architecture!!!' Issued by the Women´s Working Group in Financing for Development

'WIDE demands immediate release of trade-union activists arbitrarily imprisoned in Turkey" - Read press release from World March of Women.

'A call for structural, sustainable, gender equitable and rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis' - Women's Working Group on Financing For Development (WWG on FfD) seeks Gender Equality at UN Summit.

"Join the ElectionCampaign.eu and create your own cyberaction now!" - As part of the Seattle to Brussels (S2B) network, WIDE participates in the civil society EP Election Campaign to urge future MEPs to put people and the environment before big business profits. The idea is to pin down the candidates with ready-to-use background information on the major challenges for the European NGOs: the corporate capture of EU institutions. You can create your own cyberaction in your language and put the fully interactive cyberaction tool on your website.

Decent work, trade and development: the joint project run by WIDE, WoW UK and Weed Germany.

Latest publications  

WIDE Annual Report 2008: WIDE has published its Annual Report 2008. You can download the report from here.

WIDE Annual Conference Report 2008: "Feminist Visions for a Just Europe".

In 2008 WIDE held its ´Conference on Feminist Visions for a Just Europe´ at the Peace Palace in The Hague, hosted by WO=MEN, the WIDE Dutch Gender Platform. You can access the annual conference report by clicking here.

Read some of the presentations of AC 2008. To check out radio-interviews and the daily feminist news at: http://feministvisionsforeurope.blogspot.com/

Sharhrzad videoreports on WIDE Annual Conference on Youtube with interviews with Wendy Harcourt, former WIDE chair, Lin McDevitt-Pugh, Joanna Semeniuk and others.

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