CEDAW General Recommendation 28 on the Obligations of the State in Ensuring the Rights of Women
2017
A PDF infographic on CEDAW General Recommendation 28 on the core obligations of the State in ensuring the rights of women, including State obligation in relation to the role of private actors.
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Women’s Rights In Natural Resources
2017
A PDF infographic outlining five key issues for women’s rights in natural resources.
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Women’s Economic Rights in the ASEAN
2017
A short video sharing the experiences of women’s rights organisations which used CEDAW to raise awareness of priority issues for women’s economic leadership in ASEAN. Duration: 5:42 Subtitles: English
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A Simple Guide to CEDAW and the SDGs
2017
A short film outlining how CEDAW and the Sustainable Development Goals can work together to advance gender equality. Duration: 13:30 Subtitles: English
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Video of statement by IWRAW Asia Pacific at the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61)
2017
IWRAW Asia Pacific’s oral statement at #CSW61, emphasising that women’s economic empowerment is a crosscutting right that impinges on many other rights. Duration: 3:57 Subtitles: English
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Text of statement by IWRAW Asia Pacific at the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61)
2017
Two-page PDF of of IWRAW Asia Pacific’s oral statement at #CSW61, emphasising that women’s economic empowerment is a crosscutting right that impinges on many other rights.
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The Missing Women: Implications of the ASEAN Integration on Women Migrant Workers’ Rights
2017
PDF of thematic paper. Topics covered include: ASEAN’s economic, political and socio-cultural agenda and implications to women ASEAN’s framework on labour migration ASEAN regional institutions involved in the protection and promotion of migrant workers in ASEAN women’s rights issues in the context of labour migration in ASEAN cases of women migrant workers from Lao PDR […]
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The Bellagio Declaration
2017
PDF of the Bellagio Declaration on state obligation and role of the judiciary in ensuring access to justice for gender-based violence, including sexual violence, in an effective, competent manner and with a gender perspective.
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Submission to the CEDAW Committee on the Draft General Recommendation on Gender-Related Dimensions of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
2017
Seven-page PDF submission of comments and suggestions covering themes such as accountability and access to justice, business actors and extra-territorial obligations, health, social protection, etc.
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Submission to UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights
2017
Ten-page PDF submission on the impact of fundamentalism and extremism on women’s human rights, with a focus on cultural rights.
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