IWRAW Asia Pacific

International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific is a feminist organisation committed to the full realisation of women's human rights through the pursuit of equality.
We act to disrupt structures, systems and institutions that violate women's human rights, and we engage in movement building that amplifies women’s voices and activism to create alternative political narratives and spaces.

New from IWRAW AP

Beyond the UN’s walls: The impacts of the UN budget cuts on accountability mechanisms

On 17 February 2026, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) released a statement sharing its concerns on the United Nations Financial and Liquidity Crisis, in light of the crisis’s impact on the operations of their mandate. IWRAW Asia Pacific has supported the CEDAW Committee and the Office of […]

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GSWF 2025, Rightfully Ours: IWRAW Asia Pacific’s position paper on the Global South feminist analysis and critique of multilateralism

Global South Women’s Forum 2025: Rightfully Ours!   “We commit to creating a strategic space that is both living and growing; that is organic, dynamic and symbiotic” – Outcome document of the inaugural Global South Women’s Forum, 2016   For over 30 years, IWRAW Asia Pacific has lived its mandate of advancing the realisation of […]

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Resources

Metamorphosis: IWRAW Asia Pacific’s 2025 Annual Report

IWRAW Asia Pacific’s 2025 Annual Report details our work undertaken in the first year of our new strategic plan, Cultivating Rights, Rooting Resilience. Access our report here.

CEDAW Submission: Commentary on the Draft Text of General Recommendation no. 41

This commentary was submitted by IWRAW Asia Pacific and partner organisations Akanksha Seva Sadan, the Asia Feminist LBQ Network, Bonhishikha, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Nirantar Trust, the Women’s Legal Centre (WLC), and Youth Unity for Voluntary Action (YUVA) as a response to the draft of the CEDAW Committee’s General Recommendation 41 on gender stereotypes. Read through the commentary here.

CEDAW Sessions

93rd CEDAW Session

Angola, Cabo Verde, Cook Islands, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Paraguay, Republic of Moldova, Togo (October 2026) | Merged with Pre Session Working Group for Bangladesh, Barbados, Burundi, Guinea, Haiti, Jordan, Mali, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nigeria, Russian Federation (October 2026)

94th CEDAW Session – to be confirmed

Australia, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Guinea-Bissau, Malta, Mauritius, Romania (February 2027)

96th CEDAW Pre Session Working Group – to be confirmed

Burkina Faso, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ethiopia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, North Macedonia, Samoa, Suriname, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Zambia (February 2027)

Events

IWRAW Asia Pacific at the Women Deliver Conference 2026

In April 2026, IWRAW Asia Pacific joined over 6,000 feminists in Naarm for the Women Deliver Conference 2026. Bringing together CEDAW Committee members, feminist civil society, NHRIs, and multilateral actors, our sessions focused on harnessing CEDAW’s potential for transformative change and utilising its promise of state accountability. Read through our post-Women Deliver brief here.