Media Contact: Anu Palan, Director of Communications and Outreach Direct Line: 202-884-8399 | General Line: 202-884-8396 | Cell Phone: 240-565-4078 | Email: apalan AT womenthrive DOT org
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November 21, 2003 - Last night negotiatiors hastily issued a watered down declaration, ending trade negotiations a day early at the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting in Miami. After the collapse of talks this September at the WTO meeting in Cancun, negotiators did not want to risk another failure, and came to a compromise with this draft declaration, which contains a great deal of rhetoric and few specifics on how to resolve outstanding issues. |
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June 30, 2005 - Women, who form the vast majority of the 1.2 billion poorest people who live on less than $1 a day, could be the biggest winners if the Group of 8 Nations (G8) come through with their commitment to cancel $40 billion worth of debt owed by 18 of the world’s poorest nations at their upcoming summit next week, according to the Women’s Edge Coalition, a Washington DC-based nonprofit group that advocates for improving economic opportunity for poor women worldwide.
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June 10, 2004 - The Women's Edge Coalition released the study, The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Jamaica's Poor: An Analysis of Agriculture and Services, on June 10 at the Embassy of Jamaica. |
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July 24, 2004 - A coalition of leading international nongovernmental organizations kicked off a national campaign to challenge American women to push U.S. elected officials and candidates in the upcoming election to create a better, safer world by investing in poor women around the globe. |
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November 18, 2003 -The Women’s Edge Coalition, a nonpartisan organization that advocates international economic policies and human rights that support poor women worldwide, today announced it has completed its groundbreaking case study to analyze the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and future impact of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) on Mexico’s poor farmers, with a particular emphasis on women. |
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June 30, 2005 - The Women’s Edge Coalition welcomes the President’s announcement of $55 million to bolster women’s justice and empowerment in four African nations. According to the White House, the funds will be used to strengthen the capacity of legal institutions in the selected countries to punish perpetrators of violence against women and to help better reintegrate victims of violence into society. It will also support existing public education efforts to spread awareness about the link between the spread of AIDS and violence against women.
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July 1, 2004 - The top Washington diplomat for Jamaica commended the Women’s Edge Coalition for releasing a study illustrating how free trade agreements impacted Jamaican women and pledged to share the findings with high-level government officials. |
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September 8, 2005 - Women will be the biggest losers if the UN World Summit in New York does not focus on its original purpose: reducing poverty worldwide and attaining the Millennium Development Goals. The vast majority of the one billion people living on less than one dollar a day are women. Attempting to water down commitments the US has already made to reducing poverty and to change the agenda of the summit to include issues like terrorism and UN reform is a disservice to the world’s most vulnerable citizens. |
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