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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Women Gaining Ground: Written submission on the draft of CEDAW General Recommendation no. 40
May 2024
This written submission is made on behalf of Women Gaining Ground (WGG), a Global South-led consortium of three organisations (CREA, Akili Dada, and IWRAW Asia Pacific) and 16 strategic partners with deep experience in feminist leadership, movement building, advocacy, and working with structurally excluded groups. WGG is collaborating in a five-year programme (2021-2025), in five […]
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Submission of the Sex Worker Inclusive Feminist Alliance to CEDAW’s general discussion on equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems
February 2023
Written submission of the Sex Worker Inclusive Feminist Alliance (SWIFA), of which IWRAW Asia Pacific is a member, to the CEDAW Committee in advance of the half-day of general discussion on the equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems. Five pages, PDF format.
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Joint submission & oral statement of the Women Gaining Ground consortium to CEDAW’s general discussion on equal and inclusive representation of women in decision making
February 2023
This joint submission and oral statement was made by International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific on behalf of Women Gaining Ground, a Global South consortium led by CREA, Akili Dada, IWRAW Asia Pacific and 16 strategic partners in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, including women with disabilities-led organisations. The joint submission and oral […]
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Joint submission of the FIFF Consortium to CEDAW’s general discussion on equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making
February 2023
This joint submission to the CEDAW Committee for their general discussion on equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making was prepared by the Forging Intersectional Feminist Futures (FIFF) consortium. The joint submission aims to highlight the multidimensional barriers that marginalised groups of women face in their access to equal and inclusive representation in decision-making […]
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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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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 […]
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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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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 […]
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