Most of the programmes are interlinked with capacity building, advocacy and knowledge building components. However in terms of implementation of specific activities to achieve our objectives the activity is anchored in one or another programme. This Calendar of activities highlights some of the IWRAW Asia Pacific events planned for the year in order to implement our programmes or to support the work of national partners. It also includes some of our engagements with various international human rights mechanisms & processes at the regional or international level as well as certain key international events/forums in relation to women’s human rights.
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| Month | Programme | Event/Activity |
| May | Building Capacity for Change | Round table on women's human rights and migration/trafficking with GAATW and Caram Asia The purposes of the four day Roundtable on Using CEDAW to Protect the Rights of Women Migrant Workers and Trafficked Women in South and Southeast Asia (Roundtable) are:
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| May | Building Capacity for Change | Participatory Assessment in Thailand and with Burmese Women’s Groups We are conducting participatory assessments in the selected countries to assist in the appraisal of IWRAW Asia Pacific’s engagement with the national partners in said countries. The work includes identification of the gaps in information
we have about the status of CEDAW implementation, stakeholders involved
in the process, best practices, obstacles, challenges/gaps if any,
as well as the most current needs and priorities identified by national
organizations, with recommendations on the ongoing role IWRAW Asia
Pacific can play to support this work. The participatory assessment
will focus on country visits framed around bi-lateral dialogues with
existing national partners and organisations, possible partners in
the country we can engage with and relevant state agencies with a
goal toward reconnecting and strengthening IWRAW Asia Pacific’s
partnerships with organisations and individuals in identified countries
in Southeast Asia; and to assess the effectiveness of IWRAW Asia Pacific’s
support and interventions in the identified countries. |
| June | Enhancing Realisation of Rights | Human Rights Council (11th Session) Our engagement with the Human Rights Council is motivated by the fact that women’s rights and issues relating to gender and sexuality rights remain some of the most contentious and divisive issues in the Human Rights Council and continue to be sidelined. The challenge of bringing recognition to the human rights of women and sexual and gender minorities remains a significant challenge which IWRAW Asia Pacific continues to address through its advocacy at HRC. At the 11th Session discussions on WHR and reports of SRs on VAW and health would be of cirtical interest to us. |
| July | Enhancing Realisation of Rights | From Global to Local Training Programme (44th Session), New York “From Global to Local” is a programme conducted by the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) held in conjunction with the CEDAW Session. This programme is designed to fill the gap between human rights monitoring by the CEDAW Committee at the international level, and grassroots activism of NGOs demanding government accountability at the national level. Through the programme, IWRAW Asia Pacific:
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