“The Pandemic is Most Certainly Not Over”: Belgium’s Obligation to Support a Global Public Good Approach to COVID-19 Diagnostics, Vaccines and Therapeutics
September 2022
Shadow report submitted to the 83rd CEDAW session by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), IWRAW Asia Pacific and Third World Network (TWN), on behalf of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine campaign. Connecting the current intellectual property approach adopted by Belgium and the European Union to severe and disproportionate impacts on […]
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to COVID-19
September 2022
Although the right to the highest standard of health is a universal one, the COVID-19 epidemic did not and does not reflect this. COVID-19 didn’t cause the world’s imbalances, but it didn’t help, either. Neither did the activity (or lack thereof) of individual countries. But there is a way to make States accountable. For the […]
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Рамки для защиты прав секс-работников и КЛДЖ
August 2022
Russian translation of framework which seeks to connect human rights principles to the debates around prostitution laws and sex work, and is intended to be a tool to inform the rights discourse on sex work in the context of CEDAW. Our thanks to SWAN for the translation. 69 pages, PDF. Access the English version.
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Engaging with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
July 2022
A webinar organised on International Drug Users Remembrance Day (21 July) 2022 by the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) to discuss how CEDAW can be utilised by drug user advocates to address human rights violations in their communities and amplify the specific impacts of drug policy on women and gender-diverse people who […]
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CEDAW’a Kısa Bakış: Sonuçlarda Eşitlik İlkesi
2022
A short animation with voiceover in Turkish, explaining CEDAW’s principle of substantive equality. Adapted by UN Women Türkiye from IWRAW Asia Pacific’s original in English. Duration: 3:38 Subtitles: Turkish (autogenerated) Bahasa Indonesia | English | español | ខ្មែរ។ | русский | Tetun | ภาษาไทย
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Joint Civil Society Submission on UN Secretary General’s Report on the Status of the Human Rights Treaty Body System
January 2022
This joint statement prepared by TB-Net (NGO Network on UN Treaty Bodies), Amnesty International and the International Service for Human Rights outlines the organisations’ views on the status of the UN human rights treaty body system for the UN Secretary-General’s report to the General Assembly. PDF | Word
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Global South Women’s Forum 2020: Disrupting Macroeconomics
2021
The fifth Global South Women’s Forum (GSWF), themed ‘Disrupting Macroeconomics’, took place from 14-18 December 2020 as an online festival of myriad formats including panel discussions, talks and training workshops, screenings, and strategy sessions. It marked the end of an extraordinarily difficult and challenging year on a high note by celebrating Global South women’s solidarity […]
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Руководство По Составлению Теневых Докладов О Правах Секс-работников В Клдж
October 2021
Eleven-page PDF which aims to 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. Russian translation provided by Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN). Also available in English.
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The Impact of the EU’s Opposition to the WTO TRIPS Waiver Proposal on COVID-19 Vaccines: Sweden’s Duties as a Member State and Extraterritorial Obligations under CEDAW
September 2021
Submitted by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), IWRAW Asia Pacific and Third World Network (TWN) on behalf of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine Campaign, this shadow report to the 80th CEDAW session connects Sweden’s extraterritorial obligations under CEDAW to the severe and disproportionate impacts on the rights of women and […]
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Constanza Pauchulo of IWRAW AP at the Feminist Recovery Plans Workshop
June 2021
Constanza Pauchulo of IWRAW Asia Pacific provides an analysis of the UN human rights system and multilateralism and its links to the impact of COVID-19 on women, especially those subject to intersecting forms of disadvantage. Duration: 19:55 Subtitles: None Read summary of Constanza’s presentation. Read more about the Feminist Recovery Plans Workshop and view […]
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