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International Social Science Council
Research Programme on

Gender, Globalization, and Democratization

Internet Resources on Gender, Globalization, and Democratization

Compiled by Elizabeth Montegary, Rutgers University:

Canada

The United States

  • Women's EDGE

    Women's EDGE - the Coalition for Women's Economic Development and Global Equality - is a coalition of individuals and organizations advocating international and economic policies and human rights to support women worldwide in their actions to end poverty.

Mexico

  • Free Trade Integration from the Women's Perspective

    This link features the text of R. Edme Dominguez's essay "Free Trade Integration from the Women's Perspective: Mexican Women's Views and Experiences of NAFTA."

  • La Red Latinoamericana Mujeres Transformando la Economia

    REMTE, a network of women's organizations in Latin America focusing on the issues of gender and trade, aims to devise effective means of resistance in response to neoliberalism and to construct viable alternatives.  Red Género y Economía is the Mexican branch of the network.

  • La Red Mexicana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio

    RMALC, a coalition consisting of unions, indigenous women's ` organizations, environmental groups, and NGOs, aims to analyze, question, and influence economic policies in general and trade policies in particular.

Gender and Free Trade

  • Global Policy Forum

    The Global Policy Forum monitors policy-making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice.  Under the headings Social and Economic Policy - Gender Inequality, the Global Policy Forum provides links to the following essays concerning gender and free trade from a global perspective:

    • Trade Is a Women's Issue

      Bama Athreya's February 2003 essay "Trade Is a Women's Issue" analyzes the negative impacts of global and, specifically, U.S. trade rules.

    • Trade, Gender, and Poverty

      Nilufer Cagatay's October 2001 essay "Trade, Gender, and Poverty" examines the gender inequality of trade liberalization policies.

    • Gender and Globalization

      Christine Chinkin's February 2001 essay "Gender and Globalization" highlights the political, economic, and social changes that contribute to the continued subordination of women.

  • Global Women's Project

    The Global Women's Project, a focus area of the Center of Concern, uses the lenses of gender, race, and class to analyze the effects of political, economic, and social policies on women and to advocate for change.  The Project aims to reflect a feminist evolution of Catholic social thought.

  • Hemispheric Social Alliance

    The HSA, a coalition of labor unions and networks of peasants, indigenous, women's, and other citizen groups from across the Americas, advocates an alternative to corporate globalization that supports human rights, democracy, and environmental sustainability and takes into consideration issues of gender.  The HSA has aimed to develop a continuously evolving set of recommendations for an alternative to the FTAA entitled "Alternatives for the Americas" In order to highlight the key points of contrast between the official FTAA draft and the alternatives, the HSA also compiled the detailed chart entitled "Competing Visions of the Hemisphere".

  • The International Gender and Trade Network

    The North American Network of IGTN, including the U.S. Gender and Trade Network (US-GTN) and the Canadian Gender and Trade Initiative (CGTI), addresses the negative impacts of trade liberalization on women, families and communities in the US and challenges the US government for its aggressive role in promoting trade liberalization in the WTO, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and bilateral negotiations.

  • Trade Liberalization and Women

    This site is a part of UNIFEM's program on women and international trade and aims to compile relevant data in order to illustrate the gender-differentiated impact on women.

Gender and Labor Organizing

  • The Global Workplace

    The Global Workplace strives to unite workers across the world in order to ensure the global economy benefits the majority and contains links to information on globalization, the "War on Want" campaigns, and solidarity among trade unions.  For more information on women workers in the globalizing economy, visit the Global Workplace's Solidarity: Women Workers Unite.

  • International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

    The ICFTU, consisting of over two hundred affiliated organizations, aims to address a wide range of issues, including the defense of trade union rights, the eradication of forced and child labor, the promotion of equal rights for working women, and the protection of the environment.

  • International Labor Organization

    The website of ILO, the UN specialized agency striving to promote social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights, contains links to recent and relevant issues concerning workers worldwide.  For information specifically pertaining to gender and labor organizing, please visit ILO's Gender Equality Tool.

  • Women Working World Wide

    WWW, a small voluntary organization in the UK, consists of a global network of women worker organizations aiming to support the rights of women workers in an increasingly globalized economy in which women are exploited as a source of cheap and flexible labor.

Web Sites for Women's NGOs and Research Centers*

Compiled by Kelly Coogan, Rutgers University, USA


Last Update: November 08 2004