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Presentation on “Trade Agreements, Women Business and the Pandemic of COVID-19” at the Workshop on Gender Equality and Private Sector: The Business Case of Trade and Gender, Meeting of Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender, Geneva, Switzerland.

The Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender brought together WTO members and observers seeking to intensify efforts to increase women's participation in global trade. It was established in September 2020 as a follow-up to the Joint…

Presentation on “Gender mainstreaming in trade agreements: ‘A Potemkin Facade’” at the Institute of Development Studies. Online

This seminar discussed and critically assessed the trend of gender mainstreaming in trade agreements. Even though we are yet to see concrete evidence of benefits that gender mainstreaming in trade agreements can have, more and more countries are…

Presentation on “Trade Agreements and Sustainable Development – What has been Achieved and What Remains Undone?” at 2022 CIBEL Global Network Conference, Online

The theme for the first session was trade and sustainability. The conference was about how international trade and the rules-based global trading system are facing unprecedented challenges. Sustainability, in this context, concerns not only the…

Impact Assessment of Gender Provisions in RTAs: An empirical look at the African Experience, at Aid for Trade Global Review, WTO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Amrita Bahri, Co-Chair Professor, WTO Chairs Programme (Mexico) presented at a panel on the “Impact Assessment of Gender Provisions in RTAs: An empirical look at the African Experience”, at the Aid for Trade Review, World Trade Organization…

Presentation on Gender Provisions in Trade Agreements, Law and Society Conference 2022 Portugal

In the framework of the Law and Society Conference 2022 Portugal, Dr. Amrita Bahri, Co-Chair Professor, WTO Chairs Programme (Mexico), delivered a presentation focused on how different groups of women, and women with different compounding factors…

Presentation on Trade and Gender, The Concept Design of 21 Century Trade Agreements Workshop World Trade Institute, Geneva, Switzerland

A two-day workshop titled “The Concept Design of 21 Century Trade Agreements” Workshop was organised by the World Trade Institute (WTI) in collaboration with the British Embassy. During the event international experts and academics discussed the…

Consultations and capacity-building sessions with negotiators, for AfCFTA Protocol in Women and Youth, organized by UNECA and AfCFTA Secretariat, Kenya

Dr. Amrita Bahri participated as the UNECA subject-matter expert at the consultations and capacity-building sessions with negotiators and policy-makers, to aid the negotiation of the AfCFTA Protocol in Women and Youth, organized by UNECA and…

Presentation on Trade negotiations, Sustainability and Gender, at Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia

On 11 May, 2022, Dr. Amrita Bahri, Co-Chair Professor, WTO Chairs Programme (Mexico) presented at a research workshop on Trade negotiations, sustainability and gender at Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia where the key participants were…

Panel on Gender and Trade: How could initiatives on gender and trade deliver real results?, Rethinking World Trade Conference

Panel on Gender and Trade: How could initiatives on gender and trade deliver real results? along Sara Cohen, Ed Gresser, Mona Haddad, and moderator Florizelle Liser. Rethinking World Trade Conference in Georgetown Law University, Washington,…

International Trade and Investment Law Working Group Meeting, at LSGL, at Madrid

On June 21st, 2012, a select number of leading law schools from all over the world created the Law Schools Global League (LSGL). Details here: https://lawschoolsgloballeague.wordpress.com/…