In the context of the 11th World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference that took place in December 2017 in Buentos Aires, Argentina, DAWN has been a key actor in the feminist articulation around the issue of free trade and in the struggle against the negative impacts of the WTO on women`s lives. Here we put together our more relevant informations and posts about this process:
- DAWN´s workshop at the Feminist Encounter of Latin America and the Caribbean (EFLAC), in November 2017, served as a space of first reflections around how the free trade agenda impacts in women´s human rights, and as preparation for the upcoming activism:
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/2017/12/dawns-workshop-how-does-wto-meddle-in-the-life-of-female-workers/
- Together with dozens other organizations, DAWN joined the call call for a Great Feminist Assembly in which women, trans, transvestites, lesbians, migrants, refugees, indigenous, afro-descendant and displaced women would join voices and share experiences on the struggle against the free trade agenda:
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/2017/10/global-call-to-women-united-against-the-wto/
- Read the article by Flora Partenio, DAWN Executive Committee member, on the relevance of the Feminist Assembly, published in the Argentinian press:
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/2017/12/the-great-assembly-article-by-flora-partenio/
- Check out the photo gallery of DAWN at the Feminist Forum against Free Trade, the Great Feminist Assemby, and the closing march of the People`s Summit “Out WTO! Building Sovereignty”. All these events were part of the Global Week of Action against the WTO in Buenos Aires:
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/gallery/dawn-at-the-peoples-summit-out-wto/
- “Faced with corporate power impersonating the dispossession of territories by transnational corporations, we commit ourselves to globalize the struggles and to continue strengthening ties and articulations”. Read the powerful final statement of the People´s Summit:
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/2018/01/final-statement-of-the-peoples-summit-wto-out-building-sovereignty/
- This report shared by Third World Network explains why civil society organizations considered the the eleventh WTO ministerial conference (MC11) as a failure:
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/2017/12/csos-disappointed-over-mc11-failure-to-deliver-on-psh-development/
- “Corporations take advantage of gender inequality. Accordingly, what we consider to be structural inequalities, are comparative advantages for governments and corporations, that translate into lower salaries and poorer working conditions”. Read the full final text from the Feminist Forum against Free Trade, in English and Spanish:
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/publication/declaration-of-the-feminist-forum-against-free-trade-and-the-great-feminist-assembly/
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/publication/declaracion-del-foro-feminista-frente-al-libre-comercio-y-de-la-gran-asamblea-feminista/
- In this post we share a list of articles, podcasts, news and interviews which figure DAWN or some of its member´s participation in the Global Week of Action against the WTO (mostly in Spanish):
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/2018/01/semana-de-accion-global-contra-contra-la-omc-dawn-en-la-prensa/
- Finally, listen to the audios of the Feminist Forum (in Spanish):
https://www.dawnfeminist.org/audio/foro-feminista-frente-al-libre-comercio/