Campaign of Campaigns: Towards Macro Solutions for Women, People and Planet
December 2020
This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 introduced the Campaign of Campaigns, a mobilisation and advocacy strategy to promote a ‘package’ of macroeconomic global demands devised jointly by the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) and the CSO FfD Group. It aims to galvanise collective efforts to promote solidarity across […]
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‘LALELA’: Amplifying the voices of LBTQ persons in Zimbabwe
December 2020
Presented by Pakasipiti, this session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 highlights key issues around macroeconomic justice especially for the marginalised LBTQ community in Africa, using poetry and spoken word. With speakers Miles Moyo (Voice of the Voiceless) and Tinashe Wakapila. Duration: 1:31:05 Subtitles: None
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Following the Money: The Kafala System and Chain of Domestic Workers’ Migration
December 2020
The Kafala sponsorship system is a set of policies and laws that tie migrant workers’ status to their sponsor. Migrant domestic workers are governed by this system and excluded from labour laws in the Middle East and Gulf countries. This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 addresses the interlinkages between domestic work, care labour, […]
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Applying a Feminist Macroeconomics Lens to COVID-19 Regulations: A Preview of IWRAW AP’s GEM Toolkit
December 2020
An introduction to IWRAW Asia Pacific’s Gender Equality and Macroeconomics Toolkit. This session at Global South Women’s Forum 2020 aimed to help participants to critically think about the effects of national macroeconomic policies on women and girls’ access, exercise and enjoyment of human rights, and to create space for exchanging ideas on gender-responsive COVID-19 macroeconomic […]
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Essential Labour: Reflections from Fearless Collective’s Work with Muslim and Dalit Wastepickers in Delhi
December 2020
Fearless Collective shares their work in Delhi, reflecting on the conversations they had with a community of Muslim and Dalit wastepickers – what is considered essential to them? How do they see their lives and their work in the context of the city and the pandemic? Duration: 1:34:08 Subtitles: None
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Born into Debt
December 2020
Launched at the Rise to the Beat of Debt Justice Concert, organised by Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), Fight Inequality, 350.org, ActionAid and the Asian Movement for People’s Music, this song by M E G D K addresses the illegitimate and unsustainable debt for which coming generations will suffer. Shared with kind […]
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Submission to UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
December 2020
IWRAW Asia Pacific’s critical response and contribution to the open call for input to the global project Business and Human Rights: Towards a Decade of Global Implementation, launched by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. Four-page PDF.
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Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Women’s Right to Access Justice
November 2020
This paper aims to better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted justice systems around the world, with a focus on access to justice for women on issues related to gender-based violence and rights in the family. It forms part of a broader inquiry into the gaps in rights protection being experienced by women at […]
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Breaking Silos, Building Movements: Connecting Gender Equality and Macroeconomics
November 2020
How do global economic and development structures impact the daily lives of women? Experts Barbara Adams (Global Policy Forum), Emma Bürgisser (Bretton Woods Project), Eleanor Dictaan-Bang-oa (Tebtebba), Azra Talat Sayeed (Roots for Equity) and Chantal Umuhoza (SPECTRA: Young Feminists Activism) explain macroeconomic policies and their relevance to the struggle for gender equality, particularly in the […]
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#FIRESpeak Info Hour
November 2020
In its first ever info hour, the Feminist Inquiries into Rights and Equality (FIRE) consortium took a dive into our research on child marriages in South Asia, and shared insights into what was uncovered. This Twitter Moment compiles the contributions to the conversation.
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