WTO members urged to address needs of women entrepreneurs at MC12 event – Arabian Business

  • Date: 13-Jun-2022
  • Source: Arabian Business
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:Middle East
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WTO members urged to address needs of women entrepreneurs at MC12 event – Arabian Business

World Trade Organisation (WTO) members must step up work to ensure that trade and trade rules better serve women amid disruptions posed by multiple crises, its director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said.

“We need to deepen and diversify supply networks and bring more countries and communities from the economic margins to the mainstream. In this process, which I think of as re-globalisation, women have to be at the centre,” Okonjo-Iweala said at the WTO-International Trade Centre (ITC) 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Geneva on Sunday.

The joint event, titled ‘Unlocking Trade for Women’s Empowerment and Sustainable Development’ was held on June 12, the first day of the MC12 meet.