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One year ago, on 6 December at the World Trade Organization's MC11, over 120 WTO members and observers committed to foster the participation of women in trade and better study the links between trade & women’s economic empowerment. Last week a conference in Geneva took stock of the Buenos Aires Declaration’s 1st year. #TradeForWomen

For its work creating the IGC-Disarmament Impact Group (DIG) & expanding knowledge about the importance of gender issues & practical actions for bringing gendered perspectives into disarmament discussions.
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The first Gender Responsive Standards Initiative is approved & recommended at UNECE's Working Party on "Regulatory Cooperation & Standardisation Policies".
CEN & CENELEC agree to sign to sign the UNECE Declaration on Gender Responsive Standards as soon as it is opened for signature.

The IGC-Disarmament Impact Group (aka DIG) together with IGC Champions the Gender & Mine Action Programme (GMAP) + Norway convened a side event at the Meeting of States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) in Geneva.

On 28 November, Diversity contacts points from 8 international organisations and embassies joined Europol Diversity & Inclusion Steering Group for a day of reflexion and exchange.

President Chile Eboe-Osuji, Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and Registrar Peter Lewis have agreed to become International Gender Champions

An innovative decision led by the delegation of Mexico on "Women and IP" was adopted at WIPO for the first time by the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property.

“Abominable acts of violence against women must cease” says the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Gender Champion Fatou Bensouda

Representatives of the International Criminal Court and victim’s organisations reaffirmed the need to balance the Rome Statute definition of gender with the respond to the needs of victims and ensuring their voices are heard

International Gender Champions selected out of 990 projects to present and becomes one of ten to be chosen for the Paris Peace Forum to champion and follow for 2019.

For the first time, the Descartes-Huygens prize was awarded to two women for their outstanding research and their contribution to Franco-Dutch cooperation

To celebrate the new global governance of the 21st century, IGC is travelling to Paris to discuss, debate and implement IGC's vision on the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice.