Guía para un informe CEDAW alternativo sobre derechos de las mujeres LBTI+, personas no binaries y de género diverso
June 2024
Este recurso de 19 páginas proporciona orientación específica de artículos para las ONG que buscan participar en el proceso de revisión de la CEDAW con miras a los derechos de las mujeres lesbianas, bisexuales, transgénero e intersexuales, y de las personas no binarias y de género diverso. Traducción por Larissa Arroyo Navarrete y colaboración de […]
Read More
From Voices to Demands: Outcomes of the Global Tribunal of Women Workers
May 2024
In late 2022, IWRAW Asia Pacific, in collaboration with 28 organisations, convened the Global Tribunal of Women Workers during our annual Global South Women’s Forum. The Global Tribunal was a collaborative, constituency-led, transnational and cross-movement initiative which remained steadfast in centring the lived experiences of women workers. Their stories set out to make visible the […]
Read More
CEDAW shadow report guidelines on the rights of LBTI+ women, trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people
March 2024
This 19-page PDF provides article-specific guidance to NGOs who aim to engage with the CEDAW review process with a view to the rights of lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex women, and non-binary and gender-diverse people. Also available in Spanish.
Read More
Equality Bahamas CEDAW Speaker Series: Article 13 with Constanza Pauchulo
July 2023
The CEDAW (Convention) Speaker Series, organised by Equality Bahamas, is designed to familiarise members of the public with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Each month, one expert takes a look at one Article of the Convention, its interpretation, its application to the Bahamian context, and the most […]
Read More
CEDAW Shadow Report Guideline on Gender Equality and Macroeconomics (GEM)
May 2023
This thematic shadow report guideline aims to build the capacity of women’s rights organisations and activists with the knowledge and resources to challenge neoliberal capitalist approaches in macroeconomic policies that actively violate women’s human rights. It is a resource for WROs and activists that are drafting their CEDAW shadow or alternative report and engaging with […]
Read More
Making the Unheard Heard: The Global Tribunal of Women Workers 2022
February 2023
On 9 October 2022, IWRAW Asia Pacific concluded its Global South Women’s Forum 2022 which hosted the Global Tribunal of Women Workers. The outcome of the Global Tribunal exceeded our expectations. We are pleased that the Global Tribunal was able to make visible many workers who suffer the violation of their human rights in silence, […]
Read More
Gender Equality and Macroeconomics (GEM) Training Manual
December 2022
The gender equality and macroeconomics (GEM) training manual has been developed to build capacities of women’s rights organisations and activists on GEM issues and using the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to advance women’s human rights. Its overall purpose is to encourage activists and researchers working on economic […]
Read More
Joint submission to the Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls on poverty and inequality
November 2022
Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI), International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW AP) and the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), made a joint submission to the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls for its upcoming report on “Human Security of Women and Girls in the Context of Poverty and Inequality”. […]
Read More
Human Security of Women and Girls in the Context of Poverty and Inequality
October 2022
This submission in response to the call for input by the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls was prepared jointly by Intersex Philippines, Society of Trans Women of the Philippines and IWRAW Asia Pacific. It primarily gives input on the structural barriers experienced by transgender, intersex women and girls, and gender-diverse people […]
Read More
Switzerland as Gatekeeper: The Impact of Visa Application Processes on Global South Civil Society Representation at the United Nations
September 2022
Shadow report submitted by IWRAW Asia Pacific to the 83rd CEDAW session. Focusing on the issue of border controls and visa processes as a barrier to activists’ engagement at the UN in Geneva, the six-page report examines Switzerland’s obligations under CEDAW, case studies, financial implications for women’s human rights defenders from the Global South, and […]
Read More