"At the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, governments committed to remedy some of the ways in which macro-economic policies impact women negatively and disproportionately. But 10 years later, violations of women’s economic rights have only worsened: policymakers have expanded deregulation of manufacturing and investment, boosting profits at the expense of poor women and their families; the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement is a calamity for working people and the environment has become the model for trade agreements worldwide; and privatization has shifted more of the burden for meeting people’s basic needs from governments to women in the household. Nevertheless, women’s economic justice advocates continue to formulate and demand alternative policies that are key to guaranteeing women’s economic rights as outlined in the Beijing Platform for Action." Read the rest of this position paper at MADRE, Demanding Human Rights for Women and Families around the World.