Resource Themes CEDAW

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.

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 […]

Women who Use Drugs in Kyrgyzstan: Experience of Writing and Working on a CEDAW Shadow Report

June 2022

This resource by Asteria, with support from the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), describes the experience of engaging with Kyrgyzstan’s CEDAW review in 2021. It provides a case study to assist other organisations who are considering engaging with CEDAW or other human rights mechanisms. Thirteen pages, PDF.

CEDAW’a Kısa Bakış: Sonuçlarda Eşitlik İlkesi

2022

CEDAW-SDGs Tools User Manual

March 2022

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which resolves to take action for people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership through a commitment to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite their lofty intentions, Agenda 2030 and the SDGs have been criticised for failing to center existing international commitments, […]

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.

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 […]

Sex Work is Not Trafficking

July 2021

The conflation of sex work with trafficking leaves sex workers vulnerable to abuse by authorities while discouraging people involved in the sex industry from reporting trafficking cases. Sex workers’ rights activists from South and Southeast Asia describe their experiences and perspectives in this video created in partnership with the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers. […]

Joint Submission on the Draft General Recommendation on Indigenous Women and Girls

June 2021

This joint submission to the CEDAW Committee was prepared by the Network of Indigenous Women Asia (NIWA) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) in consultation with 15 organisations from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Mekong region, including IWRAW Asia Pacific. English: PDF | Word

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 […]