Recent works produced by IGTN-Asia are listed below.  Additional resources by IGTN-Asia and relevant to the Asian Region can be accessed in the IGTN Resource Library.

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South Women and the International Sexual Division of Labor, Gigi Francisco - IGTN-Asia

A piece delivered by Gigi Francisco, regional coordinator of IGTN-Asia, at the 2007 Asian Labor Conference in Manila, The Philipines, on women and the international sexual division of labor.

New IGTN-Asia Economic Literacy Packet: Trade-Finance Linkages and Gender - Implication to Asian Women

This comprehensive economic literacy packet has seven modules: 1)Controlling Development; 2) Aid for Trade and Development; 3) Gender Dimensions; 4) Gender-Based Distributional Dynamics; 5) Micro-Finance, Poverty Reduction; 6) Migrant Remittances; 7) Gender and Trade-Finance Linkages.

Investment and Labor Mobility in Trade Intensification - Economic Literacy Packet prepared by Marina Durano, Gigi Francisco, Naty Bernardino, December 2005.

This economic literacy packet is a concise, yet comprehensive analysis of the significance of the inclusion of investment and services in trade negotiations and current issues of specific concern to women. Contents: 1) International Laws on Investment: Creating Consensus on Rights of Foreign Investors; 2) How Investment and Services Became Tradable; 3)  Don't Bite the Mode 4 Bait; 4) GATS Mode 4 and Women Migrant Workers; 5) Increased Restrictions in a Limited Space: Women in Asian LDCs, CITs, and Accession Countries; and 6) Ten Years of the WTO is a Long Wait!

Nationalist Domestic Regulations in an Era of Trade Intensification - Report from the public forum of the same name held in Quezon City, Philippines, August 29, 2005. 

Presenters from the IGTN Steering Committee challenged the WTO's encroachment into the sovereign policy space of developing countries.

TEN YEARS OF THE WTO IS A LONG WAIT! - Statement from the Training Workshop on Gender and Trade for LDCs, held in Bangkok, Thailand, July 25-29, 2005.

Participants called on Members to take account of developing country needs, specifically in the areas of special and differential treatment, technical assistance, services, and food aid.

Ten Years of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture: Problems and Prospects - Presentation at the 2005 WTO Public Symposium, Naty Bernardino, April 2005

Analysis of the July Framework and current negotiations in relation to the need to correct the current imbalances in the Agreement on Agriculture. The author argues that these imbalances only exacerbate the already existing burdens and discriminations against women.

Asia Report on Beijing+10, February 2005

The National Consultative Forum on Beijing+10 Meets WTO+10 held on December 9, 2004 at Miriam College, Quezon City, Philippines was attended by 120 participants from 31 different trade and women's networks and organizations in the country.In reviewing the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) in relation to trade and macroeconomic policies in the Philippines, two BPFA commitments were identified as overarching. The BPFA review was focused on commitments made under Women and Poverty and Women and the Economy while also tackling those on Women and the Media and Women and Health that are pertinent to trade policies. 

Statement from the Asia-Pacific Forum on Beijing+10, July 2004

Official Declaration from the Asia-Pacific Forum on Beijing+10 - Salaya, Nakornpathom, Thailand, 3 July 2004.

Economic Literacy Resources

• Trade Intensification in Asia Economies: What it Means to Women's Work

This comprehensive economic literacy packet has seven modules: 1) Negotiating the Divides in International Trade and Gender; 2) The Feminization of Labor in Asia; 3) Women's Time and Labor: Double Shift and Multiple Burdens; 4) Issues in Women's Work; 5) Women and Trade in Textiles and Clothing; 6) Women and Trade in Services; and 7) Women and Trade in Agriculture.

• Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

This literacy packet from the Asia region has seven modules: 1) Women and Regional Cooperation on Trade; 2) Trade Intensification, Growth and Social Protection: The Southeast Asian Experience; 3) Issues in Social Policy and Trade Policy; 4) Social Policy and Trade in Agriculture; 5) Social Policy and Trade in Textile and Clothing; 6) Social Policy and Trade in Services; and 7) Finding the Link Between Trade Policy and Social Policy.

• Rulemaking and Governance for Trade Intensification: Asian Women's Views

This third literacy packet from the Asia region explores: 1) How the WTO Treats National Health Emergencies in the Rubric of TRIPS; 2) the Myth of Market Access in the Agreement on Agriculture; 3) Entitlement to Food as the Alternative to Market Access; and 4) a Human Rights Framework vs. a Free Trade Framework

An Analysis of the WTO-AOA Review from the Perspective of Rural Women in Asia, February 2003, Arze Glipo, GTN-Asia/Integrated Rural Development Foundation (Phils)

This paper contains sections on: 1) the WTO-AOA and Rural Women in Asia, 2) the Inherent Imbalances in the WTO-AOA, 3) a Review of the WTO-AOA, 4)Harbinson Text on Modalities,  and 5) a Proposal for Action.

Harbinson's Text Systematically Ignores the Care and Development of the Rural Poor!, February 2003, Arze Glipo, IGTN-Asia/Integrated Rural Development Foundation (Phils).

A shorter version of the above paper (3 pages).

Inaugural Speech at the Women’s Conference of the Asian Social Forum, January 2003, Hyderabad, India Delivered by: Gigi Francisco, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) / GTN-Asia.

Ms. Francisco addresses the question, "What have neo-liberalism and militarism done for Asian women?"

Statement of the Asian Social Mass & People's Movements & Organizations, January 2003, Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad, India.