International Trade committee  As I understand it, with the Chile agreement, it's not enforced yet, so the committee hasn't been set up or started to run activities. In the chapter, the language at the moment isn't specific about who that committee should be. As you say and in our experience as well, often t

International Trade committee  I think it very much starts with having a strong analysis of the existing situation and the potential gendered impact of the trading relationship. For example, the UN Conference on Trade and Development has developed a gender tool kit to do an economic analysis, from a gender per

International Trade committee  Oxfam focuses on women's rights and gender equality, but one of our proposals is to really strengthen the provisions in a later chapter of any trade agreements to make sure that the provisions within labour chapters are much more specific, and that any kind of labour rights abuse

International Trade committee  Thank you for inviting Oxfam Canada to present to the committee today. Oxfam works in 90 countries to support long-term development and provide life-saving humanitarian assistance. We are also an advocacy and campaigning organization committed to addressing the root causes of po

International Trade committee  In the Chile labour chapter?

International Trade committee  I don't know if it's in the Chile labour chapter, but for NAFTA, we would propose to have the pay equity measures included in the labour chapter. You could use the national data from all three countries. You would have to choose which country—

International Trade committee  It was about best practices.

International Trade committee  I think some of the approaches that Canada is proposing are quite new. Chile, obviously, is the country that originally proposed the use of the gender chapter, and I note that they're leading on a lot of this work as well at the moment. Sweden also has in its feminist foreign pol

International Trade committee  No, not the moment. We're not aware that there are any plans for those to be carried out. I know that they would carry out the usual gender-based analysis, but we think the assessment could probably go a lot further and look at a lot more detail. Julie mentioned that UNCTAD, the

International Trade committee  Certainly, the labour chapter is really important, since women's economic inequality is so prevalent throughout the world of work, and also because there's an opportunity with the labour chapter to have some language on gender that would be included in the binding part of the lab

International Trade committee  Yes, I think there have been a few studies of the gendered impacts of NAFTA, but in very specific sectors—for example, in the maquila industries in Mexico or what happened to women farmers in Mexico. What we're asking for is an overall analysis that would bring the impacts togeth

Foreign Affairs committee  The first thing to note is that, overall, there is a real lack of evidence and documentation, and that's globally on DFI activities. A lack of transparency is something that civil society has been raising time and time again. That's why at this moment we are calling as well for t

Foreign Affairs committee  All of the learning from working to try to achieve gender equality through development indicates that you need to have stand-alone projects that target women and girls, but you also need to make sure to mainstream gender equality throughout the programs. You need to have a gende

Foreign Affairs committee  This is a partnership between the World Bank, IFC, and Goldman Sachs. It's called “10,000 Women” and it's a program that aims to reach 10,000 women and small and medium-sized enterprises with financial products but then also with training and mentorship. It's been running for a

Foreign Affairs committee  This is the independent mechanism for accountability, which the Dutch FMO set up in very close consultation with civil society organizations, including the Dutch affiliates in Oxfam. It's set up as an independent mechanism where communities affected by investments made by the FMO