These lessons will prepare the participant to enter advanced discussions around the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) as well as do research, advocacy and economic literacy on the subject.

• GATS Glossary

A glossary of important terms relating to the GATS that will be used in the papers below.

• An Introduction to the General Agreement on Trade In Services (GATS) for Gender Advocates

This paper explains the structure of the GATS, critical issues in the GATS for gender advocates, why women should be concerned about the GATS and civil society demands.

• The General Agreement on Trade in Services: the Debate between the North and South

This lesson explores critical issues in the GATS for countries of the South, institutional features, North - South tensions, and Issues of debate between the North and South.

• GATS and Healthcare - Why do women care?

This lesson looks at the trend in privatization of healthcare and the effects on women, the GATS attack on human rights, women's roles in healthcare in the global economy, the potential impacts of GATS general obligations on women, the impacts of GATS on healthcare under each of the four modes of GATS and actions women can take globally.

• Education Matters: General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)

This lesson looks at education's impacts on women globally, the growing debate over the public vs. private provision of education globally, the education industry in the North, educational challenges in the South, the GATS potential impacts on education and actions women can take globally around GATS and education.

• Tourism Liberalization, Gender and the GATS

A background piece on the political economy of tourism, including discussion on key issues which define tourism in developing countries such as economic development, equity, gender, formal and informal employment, sex tourism, and women's social and economic status and empowerment and influence, power and decision making. She looks at the implication the GATS will have on tourism in developing countries, in particular in the areas of economic development and social and gender equality. She offers actions women can take globally around GATS and tourism. (This popular education piece is adapted from a more comprehensive study entitled, "The Political Economy of Tourism Liberalization, Gender and the GATS.")

For more information on these modules or to order hard copies of the set contact the IGTN Secretariat, secretariat@coc.org.