Resource Themes Business and Women’s Human Rights

Realizing Indigenous Women’s Rights: A Handbook on the CEDAW

2013

In its 238 pages, this handbook by Eleanor Dictaan-Bang-oa and Helen Tugendhat outlines the situation of indigenous women in Asia, explains basic human rights principles and how to use CEDAW, and compiles General Recommendations and Concluding Observations relevant to the rights of indigenous women. Published by Asian Indigenous Women’s Network, Forest Peoples Programme and Tebtebba.

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Opportunities and Challenges for Legal Redress in Asia and the Pacific

2005

IWRAW Asia Pacific Occasional Papers Series, No. 7. 44-page paper in PDF format, written by Madhu Mehra and S.K. Priya, and updated by Sapana Pradhan-Malla. This paper focuses on the potential of civil law to enable cross-sectoral participation in addressing sexual harassment and to provide non-punitive and non-adversarial responses.

Lack of Access, Lack of Care: A Reference Guide to Women’s Right to Health in the International Trading System

2004

IWRAW Asia Pacific Occasional Papers Series, No. 3. 72-page paper in PDF format, written by Liz Sepper. Although the paper’s focus is on trade and women’s right to health, it is also intended to serve as a more general framework of analysis that advocates can apply to trade and any number of economic and social […]