Upon the initiative of Sierra Leone, Iceland and the International Trade Centre (ITC), 119-member countries of the WTO, including the 28 EU member states, and observer nations pledged in a statement adopted on the fringes of a ministerial conference in Buenos Aires on Tuesday 12 December to establish a best practice platform to encourage the economic autonomy of women and their greater involvement in international trade.
The aim of this platform, some aspects of which were described in...