Trade and Gender

Diane Monaco dmonaco at pop3.utoledo.edu
Tue Feb 27 09:49:04 PST 2001


At 03:36 PM 2/26/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>But we all share common goals
>of identifying trade's impact on women and a women's agenda relative to
>trade and investment that will foster greater economic justice and security
>for women, families and communities globally.
>To learn more about the International Gender and Trade Network, including
>how to get involved go to our homepage at: www.genderandtrade.net
><http://www.genderandtrade.net>.

Thanks for the useful link!...just checked it out and it's a great start. I've been struggling with specific connections between globalization and increased trafficking in women for nearly a year now with little research out there to go on and some strange resistance. There appears to be a definite, dare I say, "developed" country policy shift. It was the harmful endangering aspect of trafficking/prostitution to "all" that was at the heart of early legislation and regulation. The whole principle of trafficking in women and children was condemned by the League of Nations. The focus of regulation/legislation in the last ten years, however, is not on the damaging effects but rather on the establishment of individual rights and freedoms to buy and sell bodies and body parts as commodities. Hmm? In any case, thanks for the url.

Diane



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