New training programme: “Her Route to Foreign Markets” – Training Workshop for Women Entrepreneurs.

Newly developed specialised training for women entrepreneurs on how to access foreign markets and use trade agreements to internationalise their businesses.

Trade and Gender Training Workshop for policymakers and negotiators, WTO Trade and Gender Office, Ministry of Economy of Mexico and GTAGA, Mexico City, Mexico.

Training workshop for policymakers and trade negotiators organised by the WTO Trade and Gender Office, Mexico’s Ministry of Economy and the Global Trade and Gender Arrangement (GTAGA).

Special class, UNCTAD Online Course on Trade and Gender Linkages, Online.

Special class for participants of the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) online course on trade and gender linkages (focus on non-tariff measures from a gender perspective). We discussed how gender provisions in trade agreements can help break barriers and create opportunities for women, and the gaps that remain.
https://unctad.org/meeting/online-course-trade-and-gender-linkages-focu…

Capacity-building training for Indonesian trade negotiators on mainstreaming women’s economic empowerment in free trade agreements, Online.

Online training delivered to negotiators from Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade on how to mainstream women’s economic empowerment in free trade agreements.

Expert comment: “EU-India trade deal: a step forward for gender equality, but more ambition needed”, ODI Global.

Expert comment (with Prachi Agarwal, ODI Global) on the EU-India Free Trade Agreement signed in January 2026. It finds that the agreement’s trade and gender provision consists mostly of non-binding commitments that sit under each party’s right to regulate, and argues that its impact on women will depend on implementation, including mainstreaming gender across core trade instruments and setting clear, measurable goals.

Presentation on women’s empowerment through international trade, Gender Equality Committee of ANTAD, Mexico City, Mexico.

A session of the Gender Equality Committee of the National Association of Supermarkets and Department Stores (ANTAD) on how international trade can support women’s economic empowerment.

Presentation on Trade Law and Legal Skills, Global Legal Skills Conference, Brno, Czech Republic.

An international conference on legal education and skills, where I presented on teaching trade law through a global legal skills approach.

UIBE successfully organized the Africa Women Parliamentarians Seminar

Co-hosted by the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Commerce, and the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), and organized by the WTO Chair at UIBE, the "Africa Women Parliamentarians Seminar" was successfully held. The 10-day seminar, themed "Strengthening Legislative Exchanges and Cooperation to Accelerate Global Women's Development," aimed to implement the Global Governance Initiative, as well as the outcomes of the Global Women's Summit and the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).