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CEDAW shadow report guidelines on the rights of LBTI+ women, trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people
March 2024
This 19-page PDF provides article-specific guidance to NGOs who aim to engage with the CEDAW review process with a view to the rights of lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex women, and non-binary and gender-diverse people. Also available in Spanish.
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CEDAW Elections Guide 2024
February 2024
Eleven new CEDAW Committee members will be elected on 7 June 2024 at the 23rd Meeting of States parties in New York. Newly elected Committee members will replace outgoing members whose terms of office will expire on 31 December 2024. Although the election process remains state-driven, there exist avenues for NGO involvement in the nomination […]
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CEDAW Principle of Non-Discrimination
January 2024
Adapted from the original video by IWRAW Asia Pacific and produced by the Rwanda National Association of Deaf Women, this video explains the CEDAW principle of non-discrimination. Duration: 6:29 Voiceover: English Subtitles: None
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CEDAW Principle of Substantive Equality
January 2024
Adapted from the original video by IWRAW Asia Pacific and produced by the Rwanda National Association of Deaf Women, this video explains the CEDAW principle of substantive equality. Duration: 5:31 Voiceover: English Subtitles: None
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CEDAW Principle of State Obligation
January 2024
Adapted from the original video by IWRAW Asia Pacific and produced by the Rwanda National Association of Deaf Women, this video explains the CEDAW principle of state obligation. Duration: 8:08 Voiceover: English Subtitles: None
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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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Addressing labour exploitation of women workers through taking forward the outcomes of the Global Tribunal of Women Workers
July 2023
This advocacy toolkit is a collection of materials from the Global Tribunal on Women Workers designed to assist advocacy organisations and interested individuals in undertaking activities to take forward the outcomes of the Tribunal. The toolkit is part of a project that the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham conducted in partnership with IWRAW Asia Pacific, […]
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Disrupting the Development Sector from the Global South
July 2023
On Episode 16 of The Development Hub’s podcast, The Power Shift: Decolonising Development, IWRAW Asia Pacific’s executive director Priyanthi Fernando tells us about her ‘disruptive’ approach to the development sector by continuously asserting Global South perspectives on the work being carried out. Learn how double standards function when activists and practitioners from the Global South […]
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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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Promoting the Equality of Women: IWRAW Asia Pacific’s Journey, by Shanthi Dairiam
May 2023
Promoting the Equality of Women: IWRAW Asia Pacific’s Journey, by our founder, Shanthi Dairiam, narrates Shanthi’s journey during the founding years of IWRAW Asia Pacific. Beginning in 1993, Shanthi details the rich history of her work in establishing IWRAW Asia Pacific as a Global South-centric feminist organisation, bringing women’s realities into international human rights standards […]
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