Post-Cotonou Agreement: Cross-Regional Perspectives and Resistance
Channel: Regions Refocus
Date: 2020-06-24

The impending Post-Cotonou Agreement will define trade and development relations between Europe and 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries for the next 20 years, determining the capacity of ACP states to exercise their economic sovereignty and shape the path of their own recovery and development. Europe’s negotiating positions push a liberalization agenda through attempts to enhance protection for their investors in ACP markets and secure “undistorted access” to ACP natural resources, effectively reinforcing neo-colonial patterns that ACP governments are concerned to transform. This cross-regional panel outlines what is at stake in the negotiations, share lessons for mobilization, and propose alternative progressive and feminist approaches.

This panel is part of the Gender and Trade Coalition's webinar series "Trade Justice in the Time of COVID-19" -- see the rest of the series at bit.ly/WebinarsGTC. The event was organized by Regions Refocus, co-chair of the Coalition. 

Speakers:
Anita Nayar, Regions Refocus [Moderator]
Mereoni Chung, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
Maureen Penjueli, Pacific Network on Globalisation
David Abdulah, Movement for Social Justice
Rosalea Hamilton, Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance
Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei, Third World Network-Africa