Press

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WIDE Press Releases 2010

"Policy Coherence with Gender Equality, Equity and Rights in Development Cooperation" - WWG Statement at the 2010 ECOSOC High Level Segment, 28 June -2 July 2010

Exposing, Resisting, Developing Alternatives - WIDE Annual Cofnerence 2010, Press Release, Conclusions&Reccomendations. June 2010

´EU trade policy hits poor´ - S2B Press Release. EU trade commissioner discusses new EU trade strategy to European Parliament trade committee. June, 2010

"Migration in the context of Globalisation: Women´s Human Rights at Risk" - WIDE Annual Conference 2010, Press Release, May, 2010

"Reclaiming public interest in Europe's international investment policy" - Civil society statement on the future of Europe's international investment policy

"The Spanish Presidency to change its ambiguous policies towards Honduras" - WIDE Press Release, April 2010. WIDE, together with other EU and LA CSOs demand Spanish Presidency to withdraw invitation for Honduras to attend EU-LA Summit in Madrid, May 2010. Read the letter in Spanish and French.

"Aggressive free market approach disastrous for development, demo warns" - A press communication after the stunt, march 16, 2010. Read in French.

"EU "DoG" Savages Poor, Say Protesters" - Seattle to Brussels Press Release announcing a stunt in Brussels March 16, 2010. Read the press release in French.

1910-2010: The 100th International Women's Day marks a Century of Struggle for Women's Human Rights. Read WIDE's press release on the occasion of the International Women's Day.

"Beijing +15 Civil Society Statement"- New York, March 4, 2010, Commission on Status of Women. Read the Civil Society statement in Spanish.

"EUs policy on Honduras: business interests prevail over human rights and democracy!" - WIDE and European Coordination Via Campesina's joint press release on the crisis of democracy in Honduras, March 2010.

"WIDE Statement to the 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women" - March, 2010

"Taking a Stock: The financial crisis and development from a feminist perspective" - WIDE's press release, 2010

"Women Strive for Peace, Solidarity and Rights" - WIDE Press Release on the occassion of WIDE's 25th Anniversary, 2010.

WIDE Press releases 2009

"Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference: Missed opportunity to address global challenges!" - WIDE Press Release published after the WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva. 3 December, 2009

"The Seventh Ministerial Conference of the WTO" - WIDE press Release, 30 November 2009.

"WTO Turnaround! No more of the same failed policies:Make trade and development work for gender equality and women´s rights!" - WIDE Statement on the occasion of the Seventh Ministerial Conference of the WTO, November -December 2009.

"Stop Violence against Women: Restore democracy in Honduras!" - Read WIDE Press Release on the occassion of the international day for the elimination of violence against women. 

"Time to change the EU: make trade and development work for women´s rights!" - WIDE Press Release on GAERC Meeting, 16-17 November, 2009.

"Making governments accountable and aid transparent for women´s rights and gender equality" - Statement of the Women´s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) at the DCF High Level Symposium, Vienna, 12-13 November 2009

"EU-India Summit: Opportunity to halt the ongoing EU-India free trade agreement negotiations and rethink trade relations from a sustainable development and gender equality perspective!" - WIDE press release ahead of the EU-India Summit 2009.

Women´s rights under threat: the EU must ratify and implement CEDAW at last! - WIDE's statement on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the adoption of CEDAW Convention

Putting care at the centre of human life - WIDE Annual Conference Report 2009: "WE CARE! Feminist responses to the care crises"- Press Release

Feminists in Resistance: the de-facto regime is fooling the people of Honduras and the International Community! - Regina Fonseca, a Feminist in Resistance from Honduras at WIDE Brussels event.

'WE CARE! Feminists highlight care work in the context of the global systemic crises' - WIDE Annual Conference 2009

'Time to Act: Women Cannot Wait! A call for rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis' - WWG statement. Read in Spanish.

'WIDE demands immediate release of trade-union activists arbitrarily imprisoned in Turkey" - Read press release from World March of Women.

WIDE Press Release: "WE CARE! Care Economy and care crises!" WIDE Annual Conference 2009

WIDE is launching its Friends in the Media Network! Find out more and join the group here

'High Diplomacy and Fragile Consensus Limit UN to Development Cooperation:No Commitments to Reforming the Financial Architecture!!!' Issued by the Women´s Working Group in Financing for Development

"Microcredit in Europe: an answer to financial crisis?" - WIDE Press Release, May 12, 2009

'A call for structural, sustainable, gender equitable and rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis' - Women's Working Group on Financing For Development (WWG on FfD) has elaborated the declaration on the global crisis.

'Women call for a future based on alternatives to the current mainstream economic system' - WIDE's statement for 8th of March, International Women's Day

WIDE Press releases 2008

'Good but not enought: Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Doha 2008'. Press release around women's rights and gender equality in Doha, in English and Spanish. 

'The G20 committed to save the global economy at the cost of women', press release of WIDE with other women's rights organisations on the financial crisis and more specifically on the G20 Summit held on November 15, 2008.

WIDE press release: 'The financial Crisis shows Feminists were right all along!', WIDE Annual Conference 2008, 9-11 October 2008.

Statement of the Seattle to Brussels Network for the World Social Forum's Global Day of Action - 26th January 2008

WIDE Press releases 2007

WIDE press release: 'New aid, expanding trade - what do feminists have to say?, WIDE Annual Conference 2007, June 2007.

Press Release WIDE: Open letter 'Active support for proposed Gender Equality Architecture at the UN' that WIDE and other organisations sent to EU departments and mission at UN and Luxembourg mission at UN, 20 June 2007 (download as pdf).

Press Release WIDE: Open Letter signed by WIDE 'New generation of EU Free Trade Agreements threatens social justice, gender equality and sustainable development', April, 2007
-More background information. 

Press Release WIDE Briefing Paper: 'Gender Indicators for monitoring Trade Agreements', Irene van Staveren, February 2007.

Press release WIDE Briefing Paper: 'Fair and Unfair Competition, the EU-China Trade Race and its Gender Implications', Christa Wichterich, WIDE, February 2007.

WIDE and UK Gender & Development Network Statement on Gender Equality Recommendations of the High Level Panel on UN Reform, January 2007.

WIDE Press releases 2006

WIDE Press release: Collapse of the WTO Doha negotiations: Turning point for developing a multilateral trading system based on women´s rights and sustainable development, Brussels, 25 July 2006.

News release: Stop the WTO talks and bury the Doha Round: More than 70 European NGOs demand a new approach to the multilateral trading system, 28 June 2006.     

News release: Time for a new approach to the Multilateral Trading System, Over 100 Civil Society Groups demand the burial of the Doha Round, 27 June 2006.

International Civil Society Letter to trade ministers on the DDA negotiations, 26 June 2006.

What 'state' are we in? Women's lives, changing states, expanding markets. Warsaw, 2-3 June 2006 Press release, 3 June 2006.