Advocacy on Personal Status Law in Egypt
2018
Nada Hassan Nashat Abdelkawy Moussa of Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) in Egypt shares their ongoing advocacy regarding personal status law in Egypt and how they maintain a balance between gains already made for women’s human rights and what remains to be done. Duration: 3:13 Subtitles: English
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Priyanthi Fernando of IWRAW AP at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting
October 2018
What are the biggest barriers to women’s progression, and what role can the public and private sectors play? Priyanthi Fernando, executive director of IWRAW Asia Pacific, speaks at the IMF gender seminar ‘Empowering Women in the Workplace’. In these clips, she shares her views on the event hashtag #Women4Growth; highlights barriers to empowerment, particularly for […]
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Four Things to Know about the Purple Economy
October 2018
A two-page briefing paper in which Professor Ipek Ilkkaracan outlines her vision of an economic model which recognises care work. Until economic policies are implemented which reduce and redistribute care work, gender inequalities will not be addressed.
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A Feminist Approach to Economic Justice
October 2018
Outlining our aims, motivations and activities, this four-page information brief connects IWRAW Asia Pacific’s work on women’s economic, social and cultural rights and business and women’s human rights. Challenges highlighted include the exploitation of labour and natural resources; the impact of business activities on human rights; and barriers to justice.
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Women’s Rights Beyond the Business Case: Ensuring Corporate Accountability
August 2018
Eight-page PDF from Feminist Group for the Binding Treaty. The briefing paper highlights the importance of a binding gender-just international accountability framework for transnational corporations, as an agenda in its own right and an integral part of a broader effort to achieve women’s economic empowerment and rights, and offers a number of key recommendations in […]
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NGO Reporting Guidelines on CEDAW & Rights of Women who Use Drugs
2018
42-page guide in PDF format for NGOs engaging with the CEDAW review process and providing alternative information to the CEDAW Committee on the theme of rights of women who use drugs. With foreword by Judy Chang, executive director of the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD).
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Shadow Report Guidelines on CEDAW & Rights of Sex Workers
2018
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. Also available in Russian.
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Khung Làm Việc về Quyền Kinh tế của Phụ nữ trong ASEAN
August 2017
Khung làm việc giúp người dùng chuẩn bị tài liệu để sử dụng trong tranh luận nhằm tăng cường sự bảo vệ nhân quyền của phụ nữ bị tác động bởi hội nhập kinh tế ASEAN bằng cách: (1) xem xét thực trạng liên quan hội nhập kinh tế ASEAN; (2) dựa trên các thực […]
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CEDAW General Recommendation 34 on Rural Women
2017
A collection (in .zip file) of 20 PNG files which together outline CEDAW General Recommendation No. 34 on the Rights of Rural Women, in a bitesize, visually appealing format.
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Women’s Right To Work
2017
A collection of 12 PNG files which address points concerning women’s right to work.
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