About this site
This new website is a resource and learning hub on the AWID 2012 Forum theme: Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice.
We hope it will help you explore key issues and debates from the Forum and learn more about economic power and the connections with diverse women’s rights issues and agendas.
Most of the content currently on the site was generated by participants in preparation for and follow up to the Forum.
We plan to grow the site with relevant content and welcome your contributions and feedback.
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Deconstructing the International Financial Architecture (& what it means for gender justice)
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Exploring the Gender Specific Impacts of New Forms of International Trade: How, Why and Where?
Posted February 7, 2013
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Solidarity economy initiatives from the ground up: What can we learn from the women home-based workers of Southeast Asia?
What can the most invisible and marginalized of women workers contribute to the discourse on solidarity economy based on their concrete experiences over time? This question acquires significance in the light of the combined financial,...
Commodification of Knowledge
What does it mean for women’s rights that most online platforms and services are owned by a few transnational corporations? How do international copyright agreements, data protection and privacy affect our advocacy? Who governs the...
Making care visible
Every day the majority of women spend time – and often very long hours – cooking, cleaning, and caring for children, the ill and the elderly. Yet this work is not captured in data, is...
Women Long to Work in Peace
By K. S. Harikrishnan. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India , Mar 28 2013 (IPS) - Shaken by the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman in the national capital New Delhi last December, the female workforce in India is...
The Right to Food, Gender Equality and Economic Policy
Workshop Rapporteur and Writer: Alexandra Spieldoch. Editor: Savi Bisnath. This report is the culmination of a two-day experts meeting, “The Right to Food, Gender Equality and Economic Policy.” The meeting was organized as a means to contribute...
Missing Women: The G20, Gender Equality and Global Economic Governance
The Group of 20 (G20) has declared itself the “premier global economic forum” and was created to tackle the most pressing challenges confronting the world economy today, including reducing instability and preventing future financial crises....
Gender and Economic Justice: Dreaming alternatives
Jayati Ghosh argues it is time for feminists to enter into the discussion of alternatives more forcefully in order to define how economic institutions and policies can ensure a gender-just economy and society. Introduction We have just...
Economic Shock Therapy in the Eurozone: The Greek case
Lois Woestman writing in May 2012 examines how, over the past two years, Greece has been undergoing economic shock therapy not unlike that undertaken by many countries in the Global South/Arab world. She argues that...
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