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Trade deals must work for rural women say participants at key UN session

Trade deals must work for rural women say participants at key UN session

Commission on the Status of Women speakers call for progressive trade deals, at event co-organized by UNCTAD.

The city that never sleeps is waking up to the rights of rural women

The city that never sleeps is waking up to the rights of rural women

Written by Isabelle Durant, Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD

Madagascar calls on UNCTAD to assess its e-commerce readiness

Madagascar calls on UNCTAD to assess its e-commerce readiness

Looking to boost electronic commerce on the "Big Island", the government has asked UNCTAD to help evaluate the opportunities and obstacles for online business in the African nation.

Global Container Shipping to Face yet Another Crisis?

Global Container Shipping to Face yet Another Crisis?

Written by Jose Paul
Article No. 15 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°77 - First Quarter 2018]

UNCTAD and Vietnamese university to create a sustainable fisheries training centre

UNCTAD and Vietnamese university to create a sustainable fisheries training centre

Action taken to boost jobs and growth by harnessing the enormous potential of fisheries and aquaculture in least developed countries.

Borderline: Private sector players “Ring the Bell for Gender Equality” to mark International Women’s Day

Borderline: Private sector players “Ring the Bell for Gender Equality” to mark International Women’s Day

UNCTAD’s Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative joins partners to raise awareness on the role listed companies can play in women’s economic empowerment.

Borderline: Ambassadors from Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia open event marking International Women’s Week 2018

Borderline: Ambassadors from Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia open event marking International Women’s Week 2018

Women cross-border traders in central Africa bring their stories to Geneva at UNCTAD exhibit and video screening.

Borderline: Rural women in trade agreements - a Q&A with activists

Borderline: Rural women in trade agreements - a Q&A with activists

A discussion on "making trade agreements work for rural women" with the non-governmental organization Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development.

Borderline: Reliable data on women is crucial to measuring empowerment and equality

Borderline: Reliable data on women is crucial to measuring empowerment and equality

The importance of trade for development – and the meaning of gender in it – can be determined by crunching sex-disaggregated data.

Borderline: Women in informal trade want to do business legally and become more prosperous

Borderline: Women in informal trade want to do business legally and become more prosperous

UNCTAD travelled to half a dozen frontier communities in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania to find out more about women living on the borderline.