On A Gender-Just & Sustainable Trade Agenda
Part of the 61st Commission on the Status of Women
Monday, March 20, 2017, 1:15 – 2:30 pm
Ex-Press Bar, Third Floor
United Nations HQ, New York
This panel will consider the impacts of international trade on women’s empowerment in diverse countries, as well as the systemic human rights issues involved. We will explore the potential for trade to support Sustainable Development Goal 5 and be a tool to redress economic imbalances. Economic justice must be strengthened using research, data, education and effective implementation. UNCTAD’s research, mandate, potential and challenges will be presented.
We will consider the use of a human rights frame: the Human Right to Food and the Human Right to Water (SDG 6) are particularly relevant to women as small farmers and food providers. We will also address women’s ownership of land and/or resources and women’s unpaid labor. Women’s voices from India, El Salvador and the US will be brought in via a short film to frame the gravity of the concerns and call for an inclusive bounty.
Panelists
- Grove Harris, Temple of Understanding, moderating and introducing short film Roots of Change: Food Sovereignty, Women and Eco-Justice
- Chantal Line Carpentier, PhD, Chief, UNCTAD New York Office
- Kate Lappin, Regional Coordinator, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
- Respondents, with local/regional updates and promising practices
Organizer
Temple of Understanding
Co-Sponsors
United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD)
Women’s Major Group
Mining Working Group
Links
UNCTAD – Trade, Gender and Development
http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DITC/Gender-and-Trade/Trade,-Gender-and-Development.aspx
Women’s Major Group Joint Statement – UNCTAD 14
http://apwld.org/womens-major-group-joint-statement-unctad-14/
Temple of Understanding – Food Sovereignty
https://templeofunderstanding.quiksite.info/what-we-do/food/
