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The UK’s Extraterritorial Obligations and the Right to Health in a Time of Polycrisis

August 2024

This report was submitted on behalf of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine Campaign (FPV), of which IWRAW Asia Pacific is a member, and the Campaign Against Racism (CAR), to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) in advance of its consideration of the 18th and 19th periodic reports of the […]

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Addressing Intersectional Discrimination with Temporary Special Measures

2006

IWRAW Asia Pacific Occasional Papers Series, No. 8. 66-page paper in PDF format, showing how temporary special measures are a means to remedying structural discrimination and achieving substantive equality, and how their use can be justified. It further discusses why these measures should be utilised for women who encounter multiple forms of discrimination, and presents […]

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Making UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies More Effective: A Gender Critique of Reforms to the Reporting Process – The Case of the ‘Common Core Document’

2005

IWRAW Asia Pacific Occasional Papers Series, No. 4. This 36-page paper in PDF format, written by Dianne Otto, discusses some challenges to centering women’s human rights in the context of earlier reforms to the United Nations treaty body system.  

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