Gender and Trade 2000

As an important social movement, CAFRA has advocated on behalf of the women’s movement, meeting needs of women at all levels and at the same ime influencing policy.

An Investigation Into The Needs Of Women Post-Lomé

From January - october 1999, the CAFRA Secretariat administered a project geared towards capacity building of rural women in four Windward Islands - Grenada. Dominica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines - following the results of earlier research on the impact of new trade agreements on their living conditions.

It was the first course of its kind to be offered as a collaborative venture between the Caribean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) and CAFRA.

A discussion paper written by Mariama Williams and presented by DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) to the WTO> The paper finds one of its strongest points in the following statement made by Williams:

A poem

It was not going to be another run-of-the-mill, another talkshop.

Taller Salud began in 1979, when Carmen Guzman of Puerto Rico and Eugenia Acuna from Chile met in Puerto Rico.

The Youth Movement’s protest against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that took place in Seattle, Washington, started in Rome, in 1996, when hundreds of youth from all over the world staged a demonstration on November 14, 1996, on the eve of the offcial opening of the World Food Summit (WFS).