Abhatoo - Centre Nationale de Documentation

Women cross-border traders face significant challenges, including time constraints, costs of burdensome procedures, discrimination and harassment at borders. Despite multilateral calls to address those issues and to make trade policies gender responsive, notably the Revised Buenos Aires Declaration, limited progress has been made on gender equality in trade.
This policy brief outlines key gender-based barriers for women traders and provides 10+1 policy recommendations to address them.