Global South Women’s Forum 2020: Disrupting Macroeconomics

Disrupting Macroeconomics: A Forum to Learn, Strategise, and Celebrate Feminist Visions for Economic Justice IWRAW Asia Pacific is inviting proposals to develop and lead thematic sessions at this year’s virtual Global South Women’s Forum on Sustainable Development, 14-18 December 2020. This year’s forum will be themed around feminist macroeconomics, power and justice, with this blog […]

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#CuarentenaSinTransfobia: COVID-19 and the Gender Binary in Latin America

In April 2020, certain Latin American countries implemented an unnecessary and highly restrictive measure that assigned women- and men-only mobility days as a response to COVID-19. This restriction excludes and fosters discrimination against trangender and gender non-conforming people, promotes dangerous situations and violates their human rights. Five months later and despite the many cases of […]

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Recovering Rights: Governments’ Obligations to Ensure Substantive Gender Equality

This brief from the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), written in partnership with IWRAW Asia Pacific, discusses the disproportionate economic disadvantages faced by women as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the actions that governments must undertake to ensure that their economic relief and recovery packages are gender-responsive.

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Intersectional Feminism and the ‘War on Drugs’

In collaboration with IDPC Asia, IWRAW Asia Pacific hosted a tweet chat on women and drug policy, featuring NGOs and experts with particular focus on South and Southeast Asia.

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