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Making Trade Agreements Work for Women Empowerment: How Does It Help, What Has Been Done, and What Remains Undone?

17 February 2022

Bahri, A. (2021). Making Trade Agreements Work for Women Empowerment:. Latin American Journal of Trade Policy, 4(11), 6- 24. doi:10.5354/0719-9368.2021.65667 In the recent years, there has been an upsurge in the number of FTAs that are mainstreaming gende ...

Not Just Sea Turtles, Let’s Protect Women Too: Invoking Public Morality Exception or Negotiating a New Gender Exception in Trade

17 February 2022

33 (1) European Journal of International Law (2022). The most common provisions we find in almost all multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements are the exception clauses that allow countries to protect public morals, humans, animals or plant h ...

Gender Mainstreaming in Free Trade Agreements: A Regional Analysis and Good Practice Examples

17 February 2022

COVID-19 has played havoc with the global economy, and with it, international trade. Amidst it all, something else has been happening that we need to take account of, i.e., the increasing gender divide. COVID-19 is magnifying the impact of the pre-existin ...

The WTO’s Collapsing Judicial and Legislative Wings: Is “Consensus” the Real Elephant in the Room?

17 February 2022

Global Trade and Customs Journal, Volume 17, Issue 2 (2022) pp. 81 – 90 The World Trade Organization (WTO) has three main functions: (i) it provides a negotiation forum where Members can negotiate new agreements and understandings, (ii) it provides a judi ...

Not Just Sea Turtles, Let’s Protect Women Too: Invoking Public Morality Exception or Negotiating New Gender Exception in Trade

19 October 2021

The most common provisions we find in almost all multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements are the exception clauses that allow countries to protect public morals, humans, animals or plant health and life, and conserve exhaustible natural reso ...

The Mexican Front-of-Pack Labeling Reform: Is It Compatible with International Trade Law?

31 May 2021

Mexico has by far the world’s highest death rate linked to obesity and other chronic diseases. As a response to the growing pandemic of obesity, Mexico has adopted a new compulsory front-of-pack labeling regulation for pre-packaged foods and non-alcoholic ...

Mainstreaming Gender in Free Trade Agreements

31 May 2021

in their agreements. These lessons are based on a research assessment of 73 selected free ...

Rethinking, Repackaging, and Rescuing World Trade Law in the Post-Pandemic Era

27 May 2021

This book explores the ways to 'rethink', 'repackage' and 'rescue' world trade law in the post-COVID-19 era. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an important context, the book makes original and critical contributions to the growi ...

Putting Women at the Heart of Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery: How Trade Agreements Can Help

23 March 2021

The blog discusses how this crisis presents a unique opportunity to explore how trade policies, including the pursuit of free trade agreements (FTAs), and how FTAs can contribute to women’s empowerment and hence place women at the heart of economic recove ...

Gender Mainstreaming in Free Trade Agreements: What Have We Achieved, and What More Is Needed for Inclusive Recovery

22 March 2021

Gender Mainstreaming in Free Trade Agreements: What Have We Achieved, and What More Is Needed for Inclusive Post-Pandemic Recovery?, in Amrita Bahri, Weihuan Zhou, Daria Boklan (eds.), Rethinking, Repackaging, and Rescuing World Trade Law in the Post-Pand ...

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