CEDAW and Extraterritorial Obligations: Papua New Guinea Activists Highlight Australia’s Role in Human Rights Violations

By Nikta Daijavad At IWRAW Asia Pacific’s most recent From Global to Local training programme, run in parallel to the 70th CEDAW Session, we were joined by two activists from a small group of Papua New Guinea women working to expose the gendered harms of Australia’s largescale extractive industries – which have operated across many […]

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Tough on Crime, Tough on the Victims of Crime: Challenging Harmful Anti-Trafficking Measures

The World Day against Trafficking in Persons was designated as 30 July, to “raise awareness of the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the promotion and protection of their rights.” The United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons approaches the issue from numerous angles, recognising that multiple factors make […]

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NGO Reporting Guidelines on CEDAW & Rights of Women who Use Drugs

Produced in consultation with groups advocating for the rights of women who use drugs, this guide by IWRAW Asia Pacific explains how to write a shadow report to the CEDAW committee regarding the issues they face.

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Leaving No One Behind: The Imperative of Inclusive Development in Palestine

Linking CEDAW with the Sustainable Development Goals in the Palestinian context, this report by the Non-Governmental Women Coalition for the Implementation of CEDAW in the Occupied State of Palestine was written with support from IWRAW Asia Pacific and submitted during Palestine’s inaugural state report to CEDAW.

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Next CEDAW Session

71st CEDAW Session (October-November 2018): Bahamas, Congo, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mauritius, Nepal, Samoa, Tajikistan, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

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Next Pre-Sessional Working Group

The 72 Pre-Sessional Working Group will take place from 23 July 2018 until 27 July 2018. The CEDAW committee will consider the State reports of Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Botswana, Colombia, Ethiopia, Serbia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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