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    This document is an abstract for an article that analyzes the 2017 WTO Buenos Aires Declaration supporting women's economic empowerment. The declaration aimed to remove barriers and foster empowerment, but was both celebrated and criticized. While 121 members agreed to support it, others saw it as masking failures to modify rules or operations. Third world countries like India opposed it, fearing use of high gender standards to curb exports. The declaration is also part of WTO's contribution to the UN's sustainable development goals on gender equality. The article will explore the declaration's possible effects and analyze its reality in light of previous WTO policies and their implications for gender equality.

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    This document is an abstract for an article that analyzes the 2017 WTO Buenos Aires Declaration supporting women's economic empowerment. The declaration aimed to remove barriers and foster empowerment, but was both celebrated and criticized. While 121 members agreed to support it, others saw it as masking failures to modify rules or operations. Third world countries like India opposed it, fearing use of high gender standards to curb exports. The declaration is also part of WTO's contribution to the UN's sustainable development goals on gender equality. The article will explore the declaration's possible effects and analyze its reality in light of previous WTO policies and their implications for gender equality.

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    International Trade Law Assignment - Varsha S.Pillai 15BLB1044

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    INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW ASSIGNMENT

    - VARSHA S.PILLAI
    15BLB1044

    TRADE AS A DRIVING FORCE OF WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT: A


    WTO PERSPECTIVE.

    ABSTRACT
    The WTO from the time of its establishment has allegedly exercised a ‘neutral’ regulation
    policy, indifferent to gender, justified on grounds of desired equality. However, this ‘neutral
    approach has been criticised for pragmatically causing gender discrimination in certain
    cases and reinforcing it in others. The joint declaration on Trade and Women’s economic
    Empowerment at the Buenos Aires ministerial conference in 2017 was introduced altering
    the yester year stand of WTO in the issue, it was immediately celebrated and derided in equal
    measure. While 121 WTO members and observers agreed to support the declaration , which
    sought to remove barriers to, and foster women’s economic empowerment, others viewed it
    as a ‘pink herring’- a ploy to mask the failures of WTO and its role in deepening the
    inequality and exploitation, without actually modifying its rules or operations. Third- world
    countries like India, opposed the declaration sternly, fearing the use of high standards of
    gender equality by the developed countries as a method to curb exports from the developing
    countries and also referred to ‘gender equality’ a non-trade related subject.
    The 2017 declaration is also part of WTO’s contribution to the United Nation Agenda for
    Sustainable Development (Goal 5 on achieving gender equality and empowering women and
    girls). This article along with exploring the possible effects of the declaration in identifying,
    tackling the barriers and advancing the economic empowerment of women, analyses the
    reality pertaining to the declaration with reference to previous WTO policies, and helps in
    understanding the ramifications of WTO policies on gender equality and women
    empowerment.
    REFERENCES
     Frohmann, Alicia, Gender Equality and Trade Policy (December 2017). SECO/WTI
    Academic Cooperation Project Working Paper Series 2017/24 . Available at
    SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3113197 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3113197

     Sheila Kiratu & Suryapratim Roy, The Gender Implications of Trade Liberalization in
    Southern Africa Iisd.org (2010),
    https://iisd.org/sites/default/files/publications/beyond_barriers_gender_south_africa.pdf
    (last visited Sep 2, 2019).
     Assets.publishing.service.gov.uk (2019),
    https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_
    data/file/803583/Gender-Inclusion-Trade-Brief.pdf (last visited Sep 2, 2019).
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    to empower women, Wto.org (2017),
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     https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/womenandtrade_e/womenandtrade_e.htm
     GENDER AWARE TRADE POLICY-
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