Women Challenging Globalization

This report has a number of valuable sections, including: "The NEPAD, Gender and the Poverty Trap" (April 2002), by Zo Randriamaro (Madagascar/ Ghana), program director at Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa in Accra:

"...One of NEPAD's largest failings is to ignore the traumatic fallout on women of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) and other policies imposed by the international financial institutions, as well as their contribution in the impoverishment of African countries..."


More links:

US Economy: Shortchanging Women:  http://www.wedo.org/files/Shortchanging%20Women%20Factsheet.pdf

Gender and Trade 2006:  http://www.wedo.org/library.aspx?ResourceID=93

How can globalization be changed to benefit all people?
 http://www.awid.org/go.php?stid=866

 http://www.awid.org/publications/primers/factsissues6.pdf

The International Gender and Trade Network:  http://www.genderandtrade.net

Focus on the Global South:  http://www.focusweb.org

Diverse Women for Diversity:  http://www.diversewomen.org


Bernadette (Saskatchewan), Rural Womyn Canada:  http://www.ruralwomyn.net/globalization.html

Feminisms and Globalization:  http://www.imadr.org/pub/web/hanochi.html

Women and the Economy, Manitoba:  http://www.unpac.ca/economy/os_main.html

Feed the People: Women Challenge Globalization and the Erosion of Food Security (Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia and the Pacific):  http://www.poptel.org.uk/panap/archives/co-feed.htm

Globalization and Autonomy:  http://www.globalautonomy.ca/global1/summary.jsp?index=RS_WebbYoung_TWG.xml

E-Sources on Women and Gender:  http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fc/FCESources251.htm

Women and MDGs: Women’s Empowerment, Gender Equality, and the Millennium Development Goals:  http://www.wedo.org/files/MDGtoolkit_eng.htm

Water:

A Resource Guide to Gender, Rights and Water Privatization: Diverting the flow:
 http://www.wedo.org/files/divertingtheflow.pdf

Anita Roddick (The Body Shop):  http://www.troubledwater.org/water.html