FACT Manifesto
April 8th, 2020
…globally dominant narratives on the issue of trafficking in women, recognising that they stem from sexist, racist, heteronormative, patriarchal and neoliberal conceptions of women, labour and migration. This manifesto seeks…
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Shadow Report Guidelines on CEDAW & Rights of Sex Workers
January 9th, 2018
…provide guidance to NGOs engaging with the CEDAW review process and providing alternative information to the CEDAW Committee on the theme of rights of sex workers. Also available in Russian….
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Submission of the Sex Worker Inclusive Feminist Alliance to CEDAW’s general discussion on equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems
February 21st, 2023
Written submission of the Sex Worker Inclusive Feminist Alliance (SWIFA), of which IWRAW Asia Pacific is a member, to the CEDAW Committee in advance of the half-day of general discussion…
Read MoreGlobal South Women’s Forum 2023: BORDER CTRL
August 9th, 2023
…territories are sites of large-scale violence and deprivation of human rights. Carceral regimes even permeate migrant worker programmes, whereby confiscation of workers’ documents secures their captivity in their place of…
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Policy Brief on CEDAW and Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) in Southeast Asia
October 12th, 2017
19-page PDF from ASEAN SOGIE Caucus which catalogues how SOGIESC has been addressed within the CEDAW reporting mechanisms, provides baseline information on CEDAW for activists based in ASEAN member states,…
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‘Grateful and privileged’: A farewell from Priyanthi Fernando
August 30th, 2023
…minorities, sex workers, and other marginalised groups of women; Tulika Srivastava and Anisha Chugh, the directors of Women’s Fund Asia, and their team, who have been both funders and advisors…
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A May Day reflection on the rights of women workers
May 1st, 2018
…to women workers in factories: it’s also about women workers in agriculture and in mining; it’s about women workers in the tourist industry; and it’s about women domestic workers who,…
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Making the case for gender-responsive transport infrastructure
March 18th, 2019
…said that carrying out their unpaid care work in addition to their work on construction tired them out and resulted in absenteeism. Where construction teams worked outside their own villages,…
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A template for change: The ILO’s C190 and justice for women at work
March 8th, 2022
…perception of who is a worker, what is a workplace, and what is work as we think of more specific issues such as GBV at the workplace. Illustration by Sonaksha…
Read MoreWork performed by women is seen as dispensable
November 19th, 2021
Feminist criticisms of conventional macroeconomic policies: Unpaid care work is not included in macroeconomic calculations and not compensated Privatisation and corporate capture Feminist criticisms of conventional macroeconomic policies Work…
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