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Presentation on 'Breaking Barriers: Crafting Gender-Responsive Trade Policy at the SRC’s virtual International Women’s Day Event

3 May 2024

On Friday 8th March, 2024 the SRC hosted our annual International Women's Day LTC / Panel Discussion on ‘Breaking Barriers: Crafting Gender-Responsive Trade Policy’. The event also included the award of the 2024 Distinguished Woman in Trade to Dr. Ly ...

Book launch: “Trade Policy and Gender Equality”, by Cambridge University Press, at the UNCTAD’s Champions Course on Trade and Gender

3 May 2024

The book “Trade Policy and Gender Equality” discusses how trade policies create both ‘winners’ and ‘losers’, as some actors stand to benefit and others are left behind. More often than not, it has been women who have borne the negative impacts of internat ...

Presentation on “Ally-Shoring Critical Minerals for a Green Transition” at the WTO Public Forum on Ally-Shoring Critical Minerals for a Green Transition, Geneva, Switzerland

3 May 2024

Governments worldwide are taking mounting efforts to transition to a greener economy. This transition is leading to a global race for access to critical minerals based on defensive and proactive strategies and a wide array of policy tools. As these strate ...

Book launch: “Trade Policy and Gender Equality” by Cambridge University Press at the WTO Public Forum, Geneva, Switzerland.

3 May 2024

This book launch revolved around how the implementation of gender-inclusive trade policies can enhance women's access to wider markets and promote sustainable value chains. These policies aim to address gender disparities, support inclusiveness and e ...

Intervention as reviewer, for the paper titled “The Intersection of Trade and Gender”, at Hyman Soloway Colloquium, University of Ottawa, Online

3 May 2024

International economic law seeks to bind the hands of the state, in the interest of liberalizing markets in various ways, including cross border trade in goods and services (trade) and capital (investment). As with all fields of public law, the trade and ...

Paper presentation on trade and disability inclusion, at “The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements”, organized by Amsterdam Centre for European Studies and International Law, Amsterdam, Netherlands

3 May 2024

Due to be published in 2024, this book provides an up-to-date overview of the most important developments in trade law of the last ten years on social sustainability, environmental sustainability, and sustainable development. The book chapter Dr. Amrita B ...

Presentation on “Gender Mainstreaming in Trade Agreements: “A Potemkin Facade”?” at the World Trade Congress on Gender: Gender Equality for Sustainable Trade and Recovery, Geneva, Switzerland

3 May 2024

The World Trade Congress on Gender is the first international research conference on trade and gender. Dr. Amrita Bahri, Co-Chair Professor, WTO Chairs Programme (Mexico), presented a paper titled “Gender Mainstreaming in Trade Agreements: "A Potemki ...

Presentation on “Making Trade Agreements Work for Gender Equality: The widening negotiation capacity gap?” at the Research Forum at the 2022 ASIL Midyear Meeting, Miami, United States of America

3 May 2024

The American Society of International Law hosted a Midyear Meeting in early November 2022. The meeting encompassed several events, including leadership meetings of the Society's Executive Council and the Board of Editors of the American Journal of In ...

Presentation on Trade and Development: Disability Inclusion at the International Trade Week, Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, United Kingdom

3 May 2024

In the recent years, there has been an upsurge in the number of FTAs that are mainstreaming gender equality concerns in their trade agreements. But is gender mainstreaming enough, and does it mean that countries that “mainstream” gender equality concerns ...

Presentation on “Women and International Trade: Same Side of the Same Coin?” in the Women and International Law International Conference. Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, Luxemburg

3 May 2024

Dr. Amrita Bahri, Co-Chair Professor, WTO Chairs Programme (Mexico), presented at the event, which builds upon the talk held by Prof. Hélène Ruiz Fabri on the same subject in April 2021, and a remote workshop in February 2022, brought together contributor ...

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