AUTHOR
Debra Steger
Professor, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
The Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment is a stepping stone on the road to advancing gender equality and the economic empowerment of women in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The best way to achieve gender equality in an …
READ MOREWhile media attention was focussed on Syria, the G20 issued its most detailed communiqué in its five-year history. It includes commitments to work together on a wide range of issues: strong and sustainable economic growth, unemployment and underemployment (particularly among …
READ MOREPublished in the Ottawa Citizen’s “Aid and Development” blog, May 23, 2013
The selection of Roberto Azevedo, Brazil’s Ambassador to the WTO and chief negotiator in the Doha Round, as the new WTO director-general is being hailed …
READ MOREOn Monday of this week, in a small graduate seminar at American University Washington College of Law (in Washington, DC), a beautiful, humble, passionate heroine explained the history of the fight for women’s rights in her country, Yemen, and shared …
READ MOREThis essay is excerpted from a Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Commentary, published online February 7, 2012.
The recent ministerial meeting, held in Geneva in December, demonstrated that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is resilient but changed as …
READ MOREWas the Prime Minister’s statement at the APEC Summit of Canada’s interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations a sign of a new export strategy focused on Asia or a move away from our close trading relationship with the …
READ MOREAs Canada and the European Union held the ninth round of negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in Ottawa last week, and moved closer to a conclusion in 2012, what will be the impact on the World …
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