Regions Refocus is building cross-regional, cross-movement solidarity in the struggle for progressive and feminist economic policy.

GTC Explainer Series

Short, Q&A format ‘explainers’ unpacking key trade issues, produced by Regions Refocus for the Gender and Trade Coalition (GTC). Each explainer is produced in collaboration with different members of the Coalition. Topics include gender, migration, post-conflict recovery, and climate.

Resistance Across Regions

Collating analysis of activists confronting the global authoritarian surge, this report compares right-wing regimes across contexts and the challenges of progressive and feminist movements, proposing strategies aimed at weaving together the threads of resistance.

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Lessons to Africa from Africa

Read our vital research collection recovering insights from revolutionary governments in early post-independence Africa to confront today’s development challenges.

Gender, Climate, and Systems Interlinkages

Caribbean, Cross-Regional, Pacific 2 December

Feminist Organizing at 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States

Caribbean, Pacific 27 May - 30 May, 2024

Gender and Trade Coalition Explainer Series

Cross-Regional 23 April - 22 October, 2024

Gender and Trade Coalition Explainer #4: Climate and Trade

How is trade connected to climate change? What is the role of corporations in trade and climate governance? What trade-related environmental measures exist? How have trade and climate governance impacted food production? This explainer delves into the complex relationship between trade and climate, ending with five strategic policy proposals to take action on trade and climate injustice, and the gender inequality caused by this injustice. See More

Cross-Regional 2024-10-22

Gender and Trade Coalition Explainer #3: Migration and Trade

What does trade have to do with migration? How does trade create conditions that prompt migration? How do trade agreements influence migration policy, and vice versa? How is trade governance related to migrant labor exploitation? This explainer examines the structural connections between trade and migration, ending with five strategic policy proposals to promote rights-based, gender-responsive migration and trade governance. See More

Cross-Regional 2024-08-20

Lessons to Africa from Africa: A Political Exchange for Development Alternatives

Africa, Arab States 20 September - 24 September, 2023

Africa

Topics: Agriculture, Extractives, Regional Integration, Trade, Post-Colonialisms Today project

Arab States

Topics: Social Policy, Trade, Post-Colonialisms Today project

Asia

Topics: Caste, Finance, Sexuality, Regional Integration

Caribbean

Topics: Climate, Debt, Finance, Trade

Cross-Regional

Latin America

Topics: Education, Finance

Pacific

Topics: Climate, Trade

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This South-polar map projection highlights key areas of work that emerged from the priorities of our allies in each region, constituting 29 regional and cross-regional convenings since our founding in 2014.

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