Blogs - IWRAW Asia Pacific

Connecting care and justice in conversations around technology-facilitated GBV

December 11th, 2025

Connecting care and justice in conversations around technology-facilitated GBV The theme of this year’s campaign on 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence centres gendered harms taking place online. Our lives online cannot be neatly cordoned off from our offline lives, making the harmful impacts of sexual harassment, grooming, non-consensual image creation and sharing, stalking, […]

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Watch Me by Design: Why Feminists must engage with Surveillance

April 7th, 2025

In this edition of WGG’s monthly blog series, Hameeda Syed, WGG Fellow, unpacks the phenomenon of surveillance, beyond and within the digital realm, as a feminist issue and why do feminists need to engage and critically problematise surveillance as a tool of power, control and oppression. As a citizen, who gets seen, who gets ignored, […]

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Feminist Organizing on Uncertain Ground: The case of Bangladesh

February 28th, 2025

IWRAW Asia Pacific has been a consortium lead of the Women Gaining Ground (WGG) project in partnership with CREA and Akili Dada since 2021. WGG is being implemented in collaboration with 16 in-country partners (in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda), focusing on addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and increasing the leadership of young women and […]

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Border CTRL: Citizenship as a site of exclusion

August 29th, 2024

Concluding this series on the Global South Women’s Forum (GSWF) 2023, we explore the theme of citizenship as a site of exclusion. This final instalment provides a snapshot of the diverse and often challenging experiences of women from and across the Global South as they navigate discriminatory nationality laws and visa regimes. The discussions were rich […]

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Border CTRL: Carceral violence in border regimes

August 29th, 2024

In the second instalment of our three-part blog series, we go deeper into the pervasive issue of carceral violence within border regimes. Building upon the foundations laid in our first post, which examined a global preoccupation with the documentation of migrants, travellers, and other non-citizens, we explore how systemic oppression and profit-driven incentives intersect to […]

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Border CTRL: Access to documentation

August 27th, 2024

In October 2023, IWRAW Asia Pacific’s annual Global South Women’s Forum (GSWF) took place online over the course of four days, bringing together women from diverse corners of the world. The theme of GSWF 2023 was the interface between border policies and women’s experiences, viewed through a feminist lens. This piece is the first of […]

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The trouble with young women

July 31st, 2024

IWRAW Asia Pacific has been a consortium member of the Women Gaining Ground (WGG) project in partnership with CREA and Akili Dada since 2021. WGG is being implemented in collaboration with 16 in-country partners (in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda), focusing on addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and increasing the leadership of young women and […]

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Building Inclusive Economies: The Intersection of CEDAW and Macroeconomic Policy

July 10th, 2024

Macroeconomic policies, as the cornerstone of global economic governance, have the power to shape nations’ socioeconomic landscapes. However, these policies often have unequal effects on different genders, particularly women and girls, in all their diversity. Over the years, we have witnessed the harsh reality of fiscal policy measures that disproportionately burden women and girls.  A […]

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