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WIDE´s monthly electronic newsletter includes news, resources, and opinions on current developments in the fields of gender, development policy and trade. It provides insights into European Union policies on trade and development and the impact of these policies on women, and follows the work of international bodies such as the UN and the World Bank.

Besides articles, each issue of the newsletter contains links to useful online resources and announcements of upcoming events, as well as updates on what WIDE members and partners are working on in their regions.

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2010 WIDE E-Newsletter

WIDE Gender Justice Beyond the MDGs Campaign

WIDE Campaign Bulletin - Issue N1 (August)

WIDE Newsletter July, 2010

WIDE Welcomes Belgian EU Presidency / Policy Coherence with Gender Equality, Equity and Rights in Development Cooperation / UN Creates New Structure for Empowerment of Women / European Parliament Resolution on New EU Strategy for Gender Equality / CONCORDAidWatch Report: Gender is the Key to Achieving the MDGs / Marcela Benavides: Towards a ´True´ Dialogue Between Latin American and European NGOs / Domestic Workers Begin to See Some Rights / Hansina Djurhuus Shares her Thoughts about the CEDAW Conference on Concluding Observations

WIDE Newsletter May-June, 2010

Resisting, Exposing, Developing Alternatives ­ WIDE Annual Conference 2010, Bucharest, Romania /Behind the Scenes: A Story of a ´Superfood´ Called Blueberries / A European Network of Migrant Women is now A Reality / Gender Mainstreaming and Women´s Empowerment on the Decline / New Thinking and Approaches Needed to Make EU Trade Policy Work for Human Development, Social Justice, Gender Equality and Environmental Sustainability / WIDE at People´s Summit ´Enlazando Alternativas´ / WTO Doha Round is Dead / New Publications / Calls for Participation

WIDE, CSW and Beijing +15 Special Newsletter - March-April, 2010

Thoughts about Beijing+15 / Civil Society Statement Concerning the Beijing +15 Process Review at the Commission on the Status of Women, New York, 4 March 2010 / Beijing+15 Civil Society Statement / WIDE Contribution to the EWL Side-Event at the 54th CSW, New York / Ein Bericht zur 54. Frauenstatuskommission (in German) / Searching for Shared Ideas / Dutch Government Takes Leadership on LGBT Rights / Frente al Teatro de la Igualidad (in Spanish) / Beijing+15: Moving Forward or Backwards?

WIDE Newsletter, February 2010

15 Years after Beijing: Deadlock for Women´s Rights and Gender Equality /WIDE Statement to the 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women /Taking Stock: The Financial Crisis and Development from a Feminist Perspective / Follow WIDE´s Delegation at CSW in New York /Women Strive for Peace, Solidarity and Rights /Women on the March Until We Are All Free! / WIDE Celebrates its 25th Anniversary: Herstory of the Network to be Published Soon /EU Policy on Honduras: Business Interests Prevail over Human Rights and Democracy! /Recent Developments in the EU Trade Agenda / WTO Stocktaking Meeting at the End of March: There is No Stock to Take! / The Time Has Come to Set Up the New UN Women´s Rights Agency! /Join the WIDE Brussels Team! / Seeking Spanish Solutions: A Policy Briefing for the Spanish Presidency of the EU / Support Haitian Women´s Organisations

WIDE Newsletter, January 2010

Spanish Presidency to Innovate Europe / Solidarity with People of Haiti / Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference: Missed opportunity to Address Global Challenges / NGO Activities during WTO Conference: Promoting Alternatives for Sustainable, Gender and Social Just Development / Free Trade Policies and Impact on Sustainable Development, Social and Gender Justice: A Case Study of the EU-India Trade Relations / In Search of Economic alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices from India / Celebrating CEDAW +30 in Vienna, Austria / Celebrating CEDAW and Migrant Women´s Rights ­ WIDE, UNIFEM and EWL event in Brussels / WIDE Secretariat visits Bosnia and Herzegovinian member VESTA in Sarajevo 

2009 WIDE E-Newsletter

WIDE CEDAW Special Newsletter - December 2009

CEDAW +30: Celebrating the Anniversary of the Magna Carta for Women´s Rights / Women´s Rights under Threat: the EU Must Finally Ratify and Implement CEDAW! / How to Use CEDAW as an Advocacy Tool / Reflecting on CEDAW in the International Environment: One World Action and Womankind Conference in London / Violence against Women Knows No Borders / Work in Progress / CEDAW and Migrant Women ­ Regional Celebration in Geneva / Eastern European and Central Asian Coalition on the Optional Protocol to CEDAW

WIDE newsletter Number 10 with news from November

Stop Violence against Women: Restore Democracy in Honduras! / Honduran Elections Marred by Hostility, Human Rights Violation, Censorship and International Non-Recognition / Support Women´s Human Rights in Honduras: Joint Campaign by WIDE and Feminists in Resistance / Time to Change the EU: Make Trade and Development Work for Women´s Rights! / WTO Turnaround! No More of the Same Failed Policies / GFMD: Migration and Development in Tandem / Gendered Resistance at Times of Economic Crisis: If Neo-liberalism is to Blame, What is the Cure?

WIDE newsletter Number 9 with news from October

Putting Care at the Centre of Human Life: WIDE Annual Conference Report: WE CARE! Feminist Responses to the Care Crises /WIDE at the Civil Society Fair / New Publications from WIDE: Briefing Papers on Aid Effectiveness, by Lois Woestman / Global Forum on Migration and Development / Elinor Ostrom: the First Woman to Receive the Nobel Prize for Economics / Women and Migration in Times of Crisis / Shadi Sadr Wins 2009 Human Rights Defenders Tulip Award

WIDE newsletter Number 8 with news from September

G20 and the IMF: Peddling Cosmetic Changes while Hounded by Illegitimacy / Gender Equality:a Marginal Issue during the Czech Presidency? / The Last Chord of the Trio: What Does the Swedish Presidency Promise for Gender Equality? / Critical Voices on the Planned Free Trade Agreement between Indiaand the EU / Trade Ministers Want to Strengthen the Multilateral Trading System by Concluding the Doha Round / International conferences / New publications / Calls for contributions/partnership

WIDE newsletter Number 7 with news from August

The G8 Summitthat was bits and bites from an Italian female eye / FOCUS: how the Italian Summittackled the food crisis / Living in dignity: working conditions in Polish supermarkets /  International conferences / New publications / Calls for contributions/partnership

WIDE newsletter Number 6 with news from June

WE CARE! Feminists highlight care work in the context of the global systemic crises / Women´s Working Group: No commitments to reforming the financial architecture! / WIDE Publication ´Financing for Development and Women Rights: a critical review´ / New resources / Calls for participation / New publications

WIDE newsletter Number 5 with news from May

A new approach to development: report from WIDE Microcredit conference, 15 May 2009 / Update: FTA negotiations between the EU and India continue / Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference at the end of November / New AidWatch report: European governments fall short on their commitments / A stronger women´s UN entity is a real possibility: join the campaign

WIDE newsletter Number 4 with news from April

Women´s rights organisations call for structural, sustainable, gender-equitable and rights-based responses to the global financial and economic crisis / Join the Alternative Trade Mandate, which puts people and the environment first/Advocating for a change ­ development and gender for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

WIDE newsletter Number 2-3 with news from February-March

'Feminist Remarks to Ongoing debates on neoliberal capitalism and crisis' / '2009 Commission on the Status of Women: sharing of care responsibilities, GEAR campaign and the financial and economic crisis'./ 'WIDE at the World Social Forum denouncing the neoliberal economic system' / 'International Women's Day 2009: Women Continue their struggle for equity and social justice!' / 'European Parliament adopts report on EU India Free Trade Agreement negotiations' 'UNCTAD' expert meeting on mainstreaming gender in trade policy'/ 'Letter to the Czech EU Presidency: concerns and proposals regarding EU trade policy' / 'Meeting of WIDE working group on financing for gender equality.

WIDE newsletter Number 1 with news from January

'WIDE Annual Conference 2009 ´Care Economy and Care Crisis´, 18­­­20 June, Basel, Switzerland' / 'EU prepares 2009 report on policy coherence for development: gender considered unimportant yet again' / 'UKGADN roundtables on aid effectiveness and climate change include gender in the debates'/'Multifaceted crisis needs innovative response'.

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