CEDAW and extraterritorial obligations: Papua New Guinea activists highlight Australia’s role in human rights violations
September 20th, 2018
By Nikta Daijavad At IWRAW Asia Pacific’s 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 provinces of […]
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Tough on crime, tough on the victims of crime: Challenging harmful anti-trafficking measures
July 30th, 2018
By Nine 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 […]
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Leveraging judicial actions to combat sexual violence
May 29th, 2018
On the occasion of the 27th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, IWRAW Asia Pacific, along with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN in Vienna, the Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN in Vienna and the Academic Council of United Nations System (ACUNS), organized a side event entitled […]
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9 must-read articles on women’s labour rights
May 7th, 2018
The fundamental rights of women to and at work are essential for realizing other human rights and form an inseparable and inherent part of human dignity. Framing them within the one dimensional context of economic production and consumption ignores the obligations of states to implement the full range of human rights. Some of the factors […]
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A May Day reflection on the rights of women workers
May 1st, 2018
By Priyanthi Fernando, Executive Director, IWRAW AP How many of us are aware that May Day, International Workers’ Day or Labour Day, however we call it, and whenever we commemorate it, had its origins in workers’ demands for an eight hour working day? Yet, even though the commemorations have been going on for over a […]
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Romani women’s struggle for human rights
April 6th, 2018
On International Romani Day (which falls on the 8th of April annually) we are featuring a blog by Senada Sali, a lawyer with the European Roma Rights Centre in Budapest. Thank you Senada for sharing your story. My name is Senada Sali and I am a 26-year old Romani woman from Macedonia working as a […]
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Don’t dilute the impact of the water crisis
March 22nd, 2018
Natural Resources and World Water Day Natural resources are commonly defined as “commodities that are considered valuable in their natural form” but women’s human rights defenders (WHRDs) are challenging this term, with the constant reminder that it is the commodification of these resources that has led to a lot of the negative ramifications for women. […]
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5 examples of closing space for civil society and what we can do about it
March 8th, 2018
International Women’s Day is a day to “celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women”, and while there is certainly much to celebrate, it is also undeniable that we are seeing a massive rollback on hardwon women’s human rights all over the world and rising conservatism that is challenging our fundamental freedoms. One […]
Read MoreHow the ‘business case’ for gender equality sidelines human rights
February 18th, 2018
Originally published on Open Democracy’s website, written by Sanyu Awori. Women’s rights at work are an investment in their dignity. If we want to talk about economic returns, let’s scrutinise corporate tax breaks and illicit financial flows instead. The case for gender equality at work is increasingly being made with economic arguments. The corporate consultancy […]
Read MoreWhat do women’s rights have to do with the SDGs and the internet?
February 18th, 2018
Originally published on Resurj’s website, written by Sachini Perera Short answer, everything I recently attended the Sri Lankan Internet Governance Forum (IGF) where I spoke on a panel that discussed the linkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Internet. My intervention was framed around two questions. Technology and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) […]
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