PROGRAMME

Monday, Sept. 8th

8:00-8:30            WORDS OF WELCOME AND INAUGURATION 

                         Leonor Aída Concha, in the name of the organizing group, Mujeres Hacia Cancún
                         (Women on the Road to Cancun)                      

8:30                 First Panel: WTO – a model which reproduces and intensifies social  and gender inequity.

                        Moderator:  Claudia Cruz

8:30-8:45         The WTO and Global Governance

Laura Frade, Women’s Eyes on the Multilaterals Campaign, México

8:45-9:15        OMC:  Proposal, structure, decision making mechanisms and norms.

Dot Keet Internacional Gender and Trade Network – IGTN,  South Africa

            Daniela Pérez Gavidia Internacional Gender and Trade Network –IGTN, Switzerlan

9:15-9:30       Human Rights as a counter-system to the WTO

Brita Neuhold  WIDE-Network Women in Development Europe, Belgium

9:30-10:30     DIALOGUE/  Formation of  Comissions

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10:45               Second  Panel: SUBSTANTIVE TOPICS OF THE WTO FROM THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE

                        Moderators: Maria Atilano y Gabriela Rangel

                        Gender andAgriculture:

10:45-11:00     Trade and Agriculture

María Riley, Center of Concern – IGTN, United States

11:00-11:15     The WTO-AOA, Cancún and implications on Rural Women

Arze Glipo Integrated Rural Development Foundation-Asia Pacific Network on Food

                        Sovereignty, Philippines

Gender and TRIPS

11:15-11:30            Katia Maia, OXFAM International

11:30-11:45            Tupou Vere,Pacific Concerns Resource Center -IGTN

                        Gender and Investments:

11:45-12:00            Graciela Rodríguez, Centro de Estudos e Acao da Mulher “Ser Mulher”, Brazil            

12:00-12:15            Rosa Guillén, Red Latinoamericana Mujeres Transformando la Economía (REMTE)

12:15-12:30            Shareen Gokal, AWID, Canada

                        Gender and Services:

15:00-15:15   FTAA-ATPA-DEA  The rights to water, the effects of services on women and children – Columbia

                        Mariela Rivera, Mesa de Trabajo Mujeres y Economía, Columbia

5:15-15:30            Gigi Francisco, International Gender and Trade Network, Philippines

15:30-15:45            Gender implications of GATS

Christa Witchterich,WIDE-Network Women in Development Europe, Belgium

15:45-16:00            WTO, Globalization and Women in Export Processing Zones

Natividad Bernardino, Integrated Rural Devlopment Foundation – ISGN, Philippines

16:15-16:30       Mariama Williams, Development Alternatives with Women in a New Era (DAWN)-Caribbean,

                        IGTN, Caribbean

16:30-16:45            Privatizacion of water – the Bolivian case.

Elizabeth Peredo, Comité de Mujeres de la Alianza Social Continental, Bolivia

16:45-16:55    Case study on the impact of the GATS in Bulgaria: The concession of Sofia water supply and wastewater services:  Legal, economic, social and gender aspects.
Genoveva Tisheva, Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation, Bulgaria

16:55-18:00            DIALOGUE

20:00               Cultural evening for women

                        La Tramoya Theater

Tuesday,  Sept. 9th

9:00                 Third Panel: GENDER AND TRADE AGREEEMENTS: A FEW CASES

                        Moderator:  Miriam Martínez Méndez

9:00-9:15       Gender and Trade: the African Experience

               Elizabeth A. Elior y Victoria Serunkuuma African Women’s Economic Polity Network (AWEPON), Uganda

9:15-9:30       The education problems of children from families most effected from the economic crisis and the overall impact upon the girl-child and women - Istanbul

                        Fatma Gok, Bogazici University, Turkey

9:30-9:45            Gloria Flores Toledo, Red Género y Economía-Tlaxcala, Mexico           

10:00-10:15     The economic effects of free trade in services on women’s labor and  consumption in  México y Jamaica.

Marceline White Women’s Edge Coalition, United States

                        Nelcia Robinson, CAFRA, Jamaica

                        Nadia Johnson, Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WEDO), United States

10:15-10:30            Women in Black and the OMC

                        Yolanda Vásquez, Mujeres de Negro, Mexico

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11:00               Fourth Panel:  WOMENS STRATEGIES IN THE FACE OF THE WTO      

                        Moderator: Hilda Salazar

11:00-11:15     Militarization and Free Trade

Mary Lou Malig, Focus on the Global South, Philippines

11:15-11:30            Africa

11:30-11:45            Europe

11:45-12:00            Leonor Aída Concha ,  Red Nacional Género y Economía, México                  

Miriam Nobre, Marcha Mundial das Mulheres, Brazil

12:15-12:30    The effects of the liberalization process in trade and investments on women’s living conditions.

                         Magdalena García, Coordinación Nacional de Mujeres de Organizaciones Civiles por un

                        Milenio Feminista, México

12:30-12:45      Miosotis Rivas, Women’s Coordination of the Continental Social Alliance,  Dominican Republic

12:45-14:00      DIALOGUE

14:00               CLOSING

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