“The success of women’s work rests on political co-optability”: Lessons from overturning Kazakhstan’s ban on women’s employment
December 10th, 2021
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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Every Woman Treaty: Weakening the protections against gender-based violence against women
December 10th, 2021
Photo by Nadine Shaabana on Unsplash. The need for a new global instrument on violence against women has been advanced by Every Woman, a coalition advocating for the adoption of the so-called Every Woman Treaty (EWT). The coalition recently published a first draft of this treaty. The EWT campaign has accurately identified the UN-declared […]
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Global South Women’s Forum 2021: Co-creating spaces for Global South feminist visions of environmental justice
October 14th, 2021
The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have been supplemented by the unmanageable impacts of extreme climate events. These have included hurricanes, cyclones and volcanic eruptions, many resulting in excessive flooding, exhaustive ashfall and in some cases deaths, severely affecting the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable communities, especially in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and low-income […]
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“How did this happen?”: A feminist analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation 38 – Part 2
October 12th, 2021
CEDAW General Recommendation 38 on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration was adopted in November 2020. It recognises that ‘globally dominant economic policies are the cause behind large-scale economic inequality between States and individuals that manifests as labour exploitation’. It also highlights that macroeconomic factors produce the conditions of economic […]
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“Disadvantaged, ignored, and disrespected”: A feminist analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation 38 – Part 1
August 9th, 2021
CEDAW General Recommendation 38 on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration was adopted in November 2020. It recognises that ‘globally dominant economic policies are the cause behind large-scale economic inequality between States and individuals that manifests as labour exploitation’. It also highlights that macroeconomic factors produce the conditions of economic […]
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The making of AWARE’s Saga podcast
June 8th, 2021
It was, as they say, a scandal that gripped the nation. On 28 March 2009, Singapore’s leading gender equality organisation, AWARE, was taken over by a group of mysterious new members, who were elected to AWARE’s executive committee at an unusually well-attended Annual General Meeting (AGM). It was weeks before AWARE’s veteran members, working in […]
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“Drugs were as normal as eating rice”: Understanding the experiences and needs of transgender sex workers in Pattaya, Thailand
March 2nd, 2021
This article first appeared on the Prachatai website in English on 21 October 2020. The life of a transgender sex worker in Pattaya is not easy. On the one hand, “Pattaya is a paradise for transgender people, a place where many transgender sex workers feel they can openly express their identities,” says Thissadee of the […]
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Enfrentando crisis convergentes: la resiliencia LGBTIQ+ en Fiyi
January 8th, 2021
Este artículo apareció por primera vez en OpenGlobalRights en inglés y español el 18 de diciembre de 2020. Click here to read this page in English En la conversación sobre justicia climática no hay suficiente representación ni voces de los grupos marginados, como personas que viven con discapacidad; lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transgénero, intersexuales y queer […]
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Facing intersecting crises: LGBTIQ+ resilience in Fiji
January 8th, 2021
This article first appeared on OpenGlobalRights in English and Spanish on 18 December 2020. Haga clic aquí para leer esta página en español The climate justice conversation lacks sufficient representation and voices from marginalised groups, such as people living with disabilities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people; and migrants and refugees. An […]
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‘Wages for caring work’: An exploration of the Care Income Campaign
November 21st, 2020
In this interview, IWRAW Asia Pacific asks two activists based in Thailand about the concept of care income, its history in the women’s rights movement, and its role in building gender-just post-COVID-19 economies. Liz Hilton works with Empower Foundation, a sex-worker-led advocacy organisation in Chiang Mai, and Bee Pranom Somwong works at Protection Desk Thailand, […]
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