In October of 2015, there was a teleconference by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, including the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, UN Women, and AWID’s Economic Justice team (represented by Anne Schoenstein). With a theme of “financing and economic empowerment scenarios for women in agriculture”, the online discussion focused on the outcomes of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3), which took place in July 2015. Anne Schoenstein made statements on behalf of both AWID and the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development ((WWG on FfD), highlighting the need to address illicit financial flows and to regulate the activities of transnational corporations through human rights law.
