A Critique of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38 on Trafficking in Women & Girls in the Context of Global Migration
January 2021
This document presents a substantive critique of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38, grounded in intersectional feminist principles. Annotations made to the text of the General Recommendation highlight severe regression, ambiguous provisions, and progress. PDF | Word
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Trafficking & Women’s Rights
December 2020
In this episode of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)’s series on the UN Trafficking Protocol and anti-trafficking work more broadly, Borislav Gerasimov and Sharmila Parmanand speak with IWRAW Asia Pacific programme manager Ishita Dutta. Ishita speaks about the challenges for women’s rights activists to engage with state institutions and what women’s rights […]
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Promote Prevention, Question Criminalisation: Reframing Responses to Child Marriage
December 2020
This South Asian dialogue, held by Feminist Inquiries into Rights and Equality (FIRE), was supported by IWRAW Asia Pacific as a consortium partner. FIRE project partners from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Nepal, as well as other country partners and allies, provided information on the ground-level realities of child and early marriage (CEM), emphasising […]
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#GSWF2020 Threads
December 2020
The Global South Women’s Forum went virtual in 2020, taking on macroeconomics with Global South feminist voices from around the world. This Twitter Moment shares links to the videos along with IWRAW Asia Pacific’s threads on the sessions.
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A Feminist Analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38 on Trafficking in Women & Girls
December 2020
The CEDAW General Recommendation no. 38 on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration, adopted in November 2020, recognises that the ‘globally dominant economic policies are the cause behind large-scale economic inequality between States and individuals that manifests as labour exploitation’. It also highlights that macroeconomic factors produce the conditions of […]
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The United Nations Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: A Guide for Organisations of People with Disabilities
September 2020
This 22-page guide from the European Disability Forum, available both as a PDF and as a Word document, explains CEDAW and provides a step-by-step overview of the CEDAW review and complaints processes.
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CEDAW in Brief: The UN Convention on the Rights of Women and Switzerland
2020
This video by NGO-Koordination Post Beijing Schweiz provides a quick guide to CEDAW with a focus on its application in Switzerland. Duration: 3:03 Subtitles: English Also available in French, German and Italian.
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Civil Society Statement at the 76th CEDAW Session on the Impacts of COVID-19 on Women and Girls
June 2020
This statement was delivered by IWRAW Asia Pacific programme officer Marisa Hutchinson and programme manager Shanti Uprety at the 76th CEDAW session on 29 June 2020, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement was compiled from information shared by 28 NGOs from 22 countries around the world. Seven pages, PDF; also available as […]
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Drug Policy and the Fundamental Human Rights of Women who Use Drugs
June 2020
Routine mistreatment and neglect of women who use drugs violates virtually every major human rights treaty; this report makes particular reference to CEDAW. 41 pages, PDF, by University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, IWRAW Asia Pacific, E.V.A., and Eurasian Harm Reduction Association.
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How to Use Treaty Bodies’ Concluding Observations to Advance Women’s Land and Property Rights
June 2020
This toolkit from the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University and the Global Initiative on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) provides advocacy information and advice, together with a case study on women’s land and inheritance rights in Kenya, to illustrate how Concluding Observations can be used as leveraging tools at […]
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