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Bordering Rights: The globalised double standards of visa regimes

November 2024

“It takes less than a century, it seems, to see the absence of freedom as a natural condition” – Speranta Dumitru, ‘When World Leaders Thought You Shouldn’t Need Passports or Visas’, The Conversation, 27 September 2016. In today’s interconnected world, everyone should have the freedom to travel and pursue opportunities, regardless of nationality or origin. […]

CEDAW Principle of Non-Discrimination

January 2024

Adapted from the original video by IWRAW Asia Pacific and produced by the Rwanda National Association of Deaf Women, this video explains the CEDAW principle of non-discrimination. Duration: 6:29 Voiceover: English Subtitles: None

CEDAW Principle of Substantive Equality

January 2024

Adapted from the original video by IWRAW Asia Pacific and produced by the Rwanda National Association of Deaf Women, this video explains the CEDAW principle of substantive equality. Duration: 5:31 Voiceover: English Subtitles: None

CEDAW Principle of State Obligation

January 2024

Adapted from the original video by IWRAW Asia Pacific and produced by the Rwanda National Association of Deaf Women, this video explains the CEDAW principle of state obligation. Duration: 8:08 Voiceover: English Subtitles: None

Regional Judicial Colloquium for Eastern & Southern Africa: Access to justice for women’s economic rights

July 2021

On 22 and 23 July 2021, IWRAW Asia Pacific alongside the Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA), the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), and the Miami School of Law, organised a regional judicial colloquium for Eastern and Southern Africa with a specific […]

Following the Money: The Kafala System and Chain of Domestic Workers’ Migration

January 2021

This report summarises the discussion during the session of the same name organised by the International Domestic Workers Federation at the Global South Women’s Forum in December 2020. Topics covered include care work and macroeconomic policies, migrant domestic workers’ contributions to their home economies, push and pull factors for their migration, the profits of Lebanon’s […]

White Paper on Women’s Equality and Economic Rights in Eastern and Southern Africa

January 2021

This white paper and accompanying documents discuss women’s equality and economic rights in Southern and Eastern Africa. They were drafted by Rebecca Ramirez, a legal intern with the Human Rights Clinic of the University of Miami School of Law, under the supervision of the Clinic’s Acting Director, Tamar Ezer. Ishita Dutta of IWRAW Asia Pacific […]

A Portal to Macro-Level Economics through the Lens of African Feminists

December 2020

Held during Global South Women’s Forum 2020, the Nawi – Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective presents a preview of its repository of all forms of written and spoken knowledge by African women on economic issues, with a focus on African feminist thought in particular. To be developed as a comprehensive, multi-themed annotated bibliography, it will pull together […]

Disrupting the Global Food Systems towards Advancing Gender Equality, Human Rights and International Solidarity: The Case of South Africa, Brazil, China and Mexico

December 2020

COVID-19 has undermined food security both directly, by disrupting food systems, and indirectly, through the impacts of lockdowns on household incomes and physical access to food. Furthermore, COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic could undermine food production, processing and marketing, but the most concerning impacts are on the demand side – economic and physical access […]

Feminist Engagements with Trade Policy: A Feminist Perspective on Gender Equality and Trade

December 2020

This session, organised by FEMNET at Global South Women’s Forum 2020, explores the question of what feminist trade policy means. It looks specifically at what the AfCFTA is trying to achieve in terms of intra-continental trade expansion and what that means for women beyond gender equality but also in terms of women’s economic rights and […]