Welcome to IWRAW Asia Pacific’s organisational website!

This Website

Apart from information about us, this website and the CEDAW Online Knowledge Resource, have been designed to provide official and practical information on the application of the UN CEDAW Convention and other international human rights treaties.

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We also provide information to the Knowledge Resource for South East Asia, supported by UNIFEM SEA Programme.

IWRAW Asia Pacific

International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific is an international women's human rights organisation. Since 1993, we have worked to contribute to the progressive interpretation and realisation of the human rights of women through the lens of the UN Convention on the Elimination Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and other international human rights treaties. We promote the domestic implementation of international human rights standards by building the capacity of women and human rights advocates to claim and realise women's human rights. It has worked consistently with the Convention and its Committee to support recognition and enjoyment of the human rights of women in the national contexts, as well as claiming rights and redress for violations of rights. In participating in such international processes, IWRAW Asia Pacific has consistently facilitated the participation of women from national organisations, so that national experiences impact upon the formulation of such mechanisms, thereby optimising their usage and implementation.

This is done through the development of new knowledge and the utilisation of a rights-based approach.

We do this through our 3 key strategies Building Capacity for Change, Enhancing Realisation of Rights and Information, Dissemination Application and Exchange Strategy (IDEAS) which encompass training, communication, information, education, advocacy and support national level women's organizations and community groups working to improve the lives of women.