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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Gender IFI Summer School: Advocacy for Feminist Tax Justice
August 2023
In this session at the inaugural Bretton Woods Project Gender IFI Summer School held in August 2023, IWRAW Asia Pacific programme officer Hazel Birungi moderates a conversation with Aurea Mouzinho from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) and Sahar Mechmech from Oxfam. The panel discusses their experience with global campaigning on tax and gender, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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GEM: A Starter Kit for Feminist Analysis into Macroeconomics
December 2022
The Gender Equality and Macroeconomics (GEM) Starter Kit aims to demystify and challenge macroeconomic policies. Through this kit, we hope to encourage more women’s rights organisations to look into macroeconomics policies and their effects, and incorporate this analysis into the work they are undertaking. Moreover, we hope to encourage activists and researchers working on economics […]
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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”. […]
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“Now Is Not the Time to Stop Running”: Switzerland’s Obligation to Support a Global Public Good Approach to COVID-19 Diagnostics, Vaccines and Therapeutics
October 2022
Shadow report submitted to the 83rd CEDAW session by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), IWRAW Asia Pacific, Third World Network (TWN) and Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), on behalf of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine campaign. Connecting the current intellectual property approach adopted by Switzerland to severe and […]
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“The Pandemic is Most Certainly Not Over”: Belgium’s Obligation to Support a Global Public Good Approach to COVID-19 Diagnostics, Vaccines and Therapeutics
September 2022
Shadow report submitted to the 83rd CEDAW session by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), IWRAW Asia Pacific and Third World Network (TWN), on behalf of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine campaign. Connecting the current intellectual property approach adopted by Belgium and the European Union to severe and disproportionate impacts on […]
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to COVID-19
September 2022
Although the right to the highest standard of health is a universal one, the COVID-19 epidemic did not and does not reflect this. COVID-19 didn’t cause the world’s imbalances, but it didn’t help, either. Neither did the activity (or lack thereof) of individual countries. But there is a way to make States accountable. For the […]
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Global South Women’s Forum 2020: Disrupting Macroeconomics
2021
The fifth Global South Women’s Forum (GSWF), themed ‘Disrupting Macroeconomics’, took place from 14-18 December 2020 as an online festival of myriad formats including panel discussions, talks and training workshops, screenings, and strategy sessions. It marked the end of an extraordinarily difficult and challenging year on a high note by celebrating Global South women’s solidarity […]
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