Uncategorized - IWRAW Asia Pacific

Beyond the UN’s walls: The impacts of the UN budget cuts on accountability mechanisms

February 27th, 2026

On 17 February 2026, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) released a statement sharing its concerns on the United Nations Financial and Liquidity Crisis, in light of the crisis’s impact on the operations of their mandate. IWRAW Asia Pacific has supported the CEDAW Committee and the Office of […]

GSWF 2025, Rightfully Ours: IWRAW Asia Pacific’s position paper on the Global South feminist analysis and critique of multilateralism

December 11th, 2025

Global South Women’s Forum 2025: Rightfully Ours! “We commit to creating a strategic space that is both living and growing; that is organic, dynamic and symbiotic” – Outcome document of the inaugural Global South Women’s Forum, 2016 For over 30 years, IWRAW Asia Pacific has lived its mandate of advancing the realisation of […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

IWRAW Asia Pacific welcomes new executive director

June 26th, 2024

IWRAW Asia Pacific extends our warmest welcome to our incoming executive director, Tulika Srivastava, who will be assuming this position effective 26 June 2024. Tulika has been part of IWRAW Asia Pacific’s work since 1994 when, as a young lawyer, she was inspired by Shanthi Dairiam’s training on the Convention on the Elimination of All […]

The exclusion of Malaysian women with ADHD

April 15th, 2022

Like many other women’s issues in Malaysia, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Malaysian women is disregarded at varying levels. With little to no discourse on this matter, challenges faced by women with ADHD are swept under the rug. This blog post analyses the exclusion of women with ADHD in Malaysia in three parts. It explores the […]

Feminist demands for environmental and climate justice: Realities, resistance and resilience

August 4th, 2020

In recognising the interrelation of environmental issues and social and political issues, IWRAW Asia Pacific aims to take an intersectional approach to confront institutional patriarchy, in order to protect the communities and livelihoods of those affected by environmental and climate change; ensure accountability of economic actions by governments and corporations, implement domestic climate measures and […]