EXTERNAL ACTION / Trade

Over 110 WTO countries to work to promote women's economic empowerment through trade

Buenos Aires, 12/12/2017 (Agence Europe)

As we went to press, 112 WTO member countries were due, at the 11th WTO ministerial conference Tuesday 12 December, to adopt a joint declaration called for by Sierra Leone and Iceland and the International Trade Centre (ITC), and backed by the EU and Canada, on trade and women’s economic empowerment.

Building on the UN 2030 sustainable development goal to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls and on the commitment of signatory countries to implement the obligations of the...