Text of statement by IWRAW Asia Pacific at the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61)
2017
Two-page PDF of of IWRAW Asia Pacific’s oral statement at #CSW61, emphasising that women’s economic empowerment is a crosscutting right that impinges on many other rights.
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The Missing Women: Implications of the ASEAN Integration on Women Migrant Workers’ Rights
2017
PDF of thematic paper. Topics covered include: ASEAN’s economic, political and socio-cultural agenda and implications to women ASEAN’s framework on labour migration ASEAN regional institutions involved in the protection and promotion of migrant workers in ASEAN women’s rights issues in the context of labour migration in ASEAN cases of women migrant workers from Lao PDR […]
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Submission to the CEDAW Committee on the Draft General Recommendation on Gender-Related Dimensions of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
2017
Seven-page PDF submission of comments and suggestions covering themes such as accountability and access to justice, business actors and extra-territorial obligations, health, social protection, etc.
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Submission to UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights
2017
Ten-page PDF submission on the impact of fundamentalism and extremism on women’s human rights, with a focus on cultural rights.
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Stories of Change: Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in ASEAN Project
2017
A 28-page booklet in PDF format which shares, country by country, key achievements of the Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (WEL in ASEAN) project.
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Key Issues and Recommendations Concerning Rights of Women Migrant Workers In ASEAN
2017
24-page booklet in PDF format, covering themes such as care and domestic work, and access to justice, healthcare and information.
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Joint Submission on Access to Remedy
2017
Five-page PDF of submission by IWRAW Asia Pacific, the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights and others to the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises on Access to Remedy. Includes examples of how women experience corporate human rights abuses differently from men and makes recommendations […]
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IWRAW AP’s Final Submission to CESCR on General Comment
2017
Six-page PDF of Submission of Comments and Suggestions to the Draft of General Comment on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities, submitted on behalf of IWRAW Asia Pacific and other organisations and individuals.
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Outcome Document of the 2017 Global South Women’s Forum On Sustainable Development
2017
29-page outcome document, in PDF format, of the 2nd Annual Global South Women’s Forum on Sustainable Development. The document draws on the insights of the participants, united by two fundamental convictions: firstly, that gender equality should be integrated, interlinked and indivisible both in human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and secondly, that in […]
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Outcome Document of the 2016 Global South Women’s Forum On Sustainable Development
2017
64-page outcome document, in PDF format, of the inaugural Global South Women’s Forum on Sustainable Development. It records the stories of the lives of women in the Global South, contrasted against the words of the Member States of the United Nations, who promised to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
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