Activities
and Programme
IWRAW Asia
Pacific's projects and activities are ongoing and evolving. Phase
I (1993-1996) and Phase II (1997-2001) of our programme saw us
focusing on different areas of national-level capacity building.
This section highlights the projects and activities that we have
conducted in the past, and also details what we are taking on
in the current and future stages of our work (Phase III). The
latter is geared towards developing new ways of building capacity
through the development of national capacity for undertaking their
own training, and the generation, dissemination and application
of new ideas and knowledge to enhance the application of human
rights standards. It will also see us consolidating existing work
and developing fresh approaches to advocacy so that there will
be varied levels of national and international advocacy, focus
on using the understanding of discrimination to create new standards
and jurisprudence at the national and international levels, as
well as improvements in law and policy.
IWRAW Asia
Pacific’s areas of work under Phase III cover three broad
but interrelated components:
a. Capacity Building develops
methodologies and materials to provide knowledge and skills on
the significance and use of the CEDAW Convention and other treaties
to monitor and claim the human rights of women. It enables partners
to build the capacity of others, expand their national level advocacy
and influence international processes. Activities include:
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Training/Orientation
on CEDAW and the rights-based approach
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Training of Trainers
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Training of Lawyers
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Development of a regional pool of resource persons
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Development of training materials (e.g. CEDAW training manual,
CEDAW Handbook, Lawyers’ Toolkit)
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Technical assistance (e.g. to NGOs, GOs, national institutions
and others)
b. Advocacy strengthens the link
between local and international activism. This area of work facilitates
a process by which women can actively claim rights at the national
level as well as enables them to participate and influence standard-setting
processes at the international level. At the same time, gains
made at the global level are brought back home to mobilise women
around their implementation. Activities include:
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National:
Research-based advocacy in more than 12 countries
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Regional: Meetings on common advocacy themes (e.g. CEDAW Articles
5 and 16, women’s political participation, economic opportunities
for women, violence against women); South Asian Women’s
Equality Litigation Project
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International: Global Campaign on the Ratification and Use of
the Optional Protocol to CEDAW; facilitation of participation
of women in CEDAW-related processes and in standard-setting
(e.g. From Global to Local, contributions to general recommendations,
UN treaty body reform and promotion of an Optional Protocol
to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights)
c. Information Dissemination and Application
Strategy strengthens advocacy through the development
of new knowledge as well as collection and dissemination of information,
and ensures the most efficient use of these for enhancing advocacy
on human rights of women. Activities include:
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Expert
Group Meetings (e.g. updating of concepts for training, treaty
incorporation, justiciability of all human rights, the role
of non-state actors)
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IWRAW Asia Pacific Resource Centre
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IWRAW Asia Pacific Website <www.iwraw-ap.org>
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cedaw4change and other electronic discussion lists
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South Asia Information Dissemination and Application Strategy
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Publications such as:
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Thematic
information packages (e.g. reproductive rights, political
participation)
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Optional Protocol to CEDAW Toolkit
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Occasional Papers on legal and practical issues (e.g. sexuality
rights, CEDAW and trade; legal discussion papers on nationality
and sexual harassment)
This
page was last updated on July 10, 2004
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Asia Pacific is an independent, non-profit, NGO in Special consultative
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