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Towards a gender responsive, accountable and participatory post-2013 EU Multi-Annual Financial Framework and EU financing instruments The European Women´s Lobby (EWL), WIDE Network, and the Gender Working Group of CONCORD the European confederation of Relief and Development NGOs, call on European and national policy-makers to integrate a women´s rights and gender equality perspective in the forthcoming decisions about the scope, priorities, and financing of the post-2013 EU multi-annual financial framework (MFF). A gender-responsive MFF that takes into account the differential impact of budgetary decisions on women and men, allocates sufficient funding for women-specific actions, and encourages gender mainstreaming in all EU financing instruments will make the limited EU budget more effective. Read the joint statement here. WIDE Newsletter - News from April 2011  WIDE Looking Back at its 25-Year Journey: Presenting the Annual Report 2010 / The Other Financial Crisis: Poor Women, Small Credits, Big Businesses / A Radical Reform of the EU GSP Regime: EU Saves euro 1 Billion and Further Division of Developing Countries / EESC Speaks Out against Flawed EUIndia Trade Deal / EESC Slams Commission on EUIndia FTA / Despite Failure of Doha Round Talks, Lamy Denies Declaring the Round Dead / Samples of WIDE and KULU Currents / WIDE Working Group Meeting in Copenhagen / New Publications and Announcements
International Consultation on Development Cooperation, Women´s Rights and Gender Equality  Women´s Groups at BetterAid Coordinating Group (BACG): WIDE Network, the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) and Coordinadora dela Mujer/Bolivia have the pleasureto inform you about International Consultation on development cooperation, women´s rights and gender equality: On the road again: Feminist visions and strategies towards Busan and beyond, on 9th and 10th of June 2011 in Brussels, Belgium.We invite WOs representatives and gender equality advocates from other spaces to join forces for the road towards fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) in Busan, South Korea (29thNovember to 1stDecember 2011), so that we can influence that process, HLF-4 itself and beyond, and putgender equality and women´s rights at the forefront.
More information Recommendations towards UN Women  Women's Organizations present on CSW in NY were seriously concerned about the ´reluctance´ from UN Women side to take human rights, particularly economic and social rights (ESCR) on board as a guiding framework for their programmatic work.
As we have heard there: human rights are obvious, but not really effective. Therefore you need different arguments while negotiating for positive change. This is why Center for Women´s Global Leadership (CWGL) called for a spontaneous meeting in NY to discuss the issue. We have agreed to draft the letter and 10 recommendations we would like UN Women to take on board. Here you can find the letter in English, Spanish and French Here you can find the 10 recommendations in English, Spanish, and French 9 Months to Deliver: Tipping Point to Make Development Aid Effective Brussels, March 23. Days after officials at the OECD made plans towards the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4), more than 80 representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) from across the globe gathered in Sweden to develop their own strategy for the forum. Read more. European Economic Governance- a Silent Neoliberal Revolution ´European Economic Governance a Silent Neoliberal Revolution´ (in German). Article by Elisabeth Klatzer and Christa Schlager, first published in Kurswechsel 1/2011´. 100 Years of the International Women's Day In her article, Christa Wichterich revisits century old women´s struggle and talks about the different feminisms. Article is in German only. Read from here. Subscribe to the newsletter Join WIDE Friends in the Media Network! Latest publications WIDE Annual Report 2010  WIDE is delighted to present our Annual Report 2010. This publication combines the overview of the network's activities implemented throughout the year 2010.
2010 was a year of reflection for WIDE. Looking back at its life story as a network, WIDE can chronicle 25 years of a joint struggle to strengthen women´s economic, social, political and cultural rights. Since 1985 we have been reflecting, sharing and working together with our members to hold European governments and multilateral and regional institutions accountable for their commitments, and to ensure progress towards a gender- and socially just world we seek to promote. You can download WIDE Annual Report from here. (Please note, that financial reporting will be added to the document soon) The Other Financial Crisis: Poor Women, Small Credits, Big Businesses  India is in the midst of a financial crisis that shows striking similarities to the US subprime crisis, both in its origins and the rescue strategies used. Just as the cheap mortgage granted to low-income households in the USA, the microcredits given to poor women in rural areas worked out as financialisation of everyday life and integration of the women into the global financial market with its return-based logic.
In this paper, Christa Wichterich critically analyses the microcredit scheme. Read the article from here. WIDE Annual Conference 2010 Report  Migration and globalisation are key issues for the women´s movement as they are having serious impacts on women´s lives and rights.
Women from all corners of the globe including many representatives from European migrant women associations came together at the WIDE conference to share and reflect on this open question of migrant women´s human rights at risk, compelling us to rethink, expose and denounce the architecture of policy-making in Europe (and globally), and to explore the links between decisions taken at a global level and the impact they have on the ground. You can download the report from here. Women's Labour MIgration in the Context of Globalisation  The report Women's labour migration in the context of globalisation offers an introduction to important contemporary political analysis on the influence of globalisation on women´s work, mobility and empowerment. Authors of the report Anja K. Franck and Andrea Spehar explain how globalisation shapes women´s labour migration.
Download the full report from here..
Executive summary of this study is available in English, French, Spanish and Russian.
EU-India Free Trade Agreement: People's Lives and Livelihoods at Threat! WIDE Policy Paper on EU-India Free Trade Agreement. Edited by Barbara Specht. Download here. Keep Women's Rights Alive! WIDE´s Policy Paper on women´s rights and gender justice in the context of the Beijing +15 Review. Edited by: Susanna Jussila. Download here. Women's Economic Migration in the Context of Globalisation This briefing is based on: The WIDE publication "Women's labour migration in the context of globalisation", by Anja K. Franck & Andrea Spehar, WIDE 2010 and Discussion held at the WIDE Annual Conference 2010: ´Migration in the context of globalisation: Women´s Human Rights at risk?´, Bucharest, Romania, 35 June 2010. Edited by Barbara Specht. Download here.
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