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.

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Unpacking Feminism in Water Governance

This blog post is adapted from a presentation given by IWRAW Asia Pacific Programme Officer, Marisa Hutchinson at Oxfam’s Mekong Water Resources Governance Program’s virtual webinar on Feminism in Water Governance held in June 2021. Access to water is and will always be a feminist issue  At the Global South Women’s Forum 2021, Sim Socheata […]

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“The success of women’s work rests on political co-optability”: Lessons from overturning Kazakhstan’s ban on women’s employment

On 12 October 2021, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a set of amendments to the Labour Code  of Kazakhstan, lifting the ban on employment of women in 229 professions. The Law, officially named On Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan On Issues of Social Protection of Certain Categories […]

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Resources

Руководство По Составлению Теневых Докладов О Правах Секс-работников В Клдж

Shadow report guidelines on CEDAW and sex workers’ rights, translated into Russian by Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN).

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Joint Submission on CEDAW Draft General Recommendation on Indigenous Women and Girls

Prepared by the Network of Indigenous Women Asia (NIWA) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) in consultation with 15 organisations from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Mekong region, including IWRAW Asia Pacific.

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There is no easy solution to eradicating systemic barriers. To reimagine existing frameworks of water governance within a feminist lens, women have to be meaningfully included at all of its levels. Read more on our blog: https://www.iwraw-ap.org/feminism-in-water-governance/

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