GENDER AND TRADE: OVERVIEW REPORT. By Zo Randriamaro. Bridge: Development - Gender, 2006. This report demonstrates how trade generally benefits men more than women. The report lists gender-biased consequences of trade such as increased unemployment and greater human rights abuses. To lessen the detrimental effects of trade on women, the paper suggests, governments, trade alliances, the UN, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and development agencies could engage in gender analysis and build measures of accountability for themselves. To access this report visit http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/gender/2006/bridge.pdf.
SOUTH BULLETIN 128. South Centre, July 2006. This bulletin focuses on WTO negotiations and includes articles on reclaiming the essence of the Doha Mandate; the NAMA 11 Ministerial Communiqué; diverging reactions to the WTO crisis; the US and disclosure of origin requirements; and the relationship between WTO intellectual property rules and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). To access this bulletin visit http://www.southcentre.org/info/southbulletin/bulletin128.pdf.
THE WTO AT TEN: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE DISPUTE SETTLEMENT SYSTEM. Edited by Giorgio Sacerdoti, Alan Yanovich, and Jan Bohanes. World Trade Organization (WTO), July 2006. Bringing together articles by leading policy-makers, including previous WTO director-generals, practitioners, scholars of international trade law, government officials, international civil servants, members of the WTO Appellate Body, and judges from a number of international tribunals, this volume assesses the first ten years of the WTO. It examines the relationship and balance between political governance and dispute settlement; the functioning of the dispute settlement procedures and various reform proposals; the contribution of the Appellate Body to the development of international trade law; and treaty interpretation in a number of fora for international dispute settlement for such as the WTO, the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Justice, and the Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. The book has its origins in a series of events commemorating the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Appellate Body. To access this report visit http://onlinebookshop.wto.org/shop/article_details.asp?Id_Article=712&lang=EN.