GSWF 2024 Outcome Report: Disability Justice and Joy
November 2025
In 2024, IWRAW Asia Pacific, in collaboration with the Women Gaining Ground (WGG) consortium, hosted the ninth edition of the Global South Women’s Forum under the theme of ‘Dreams of Disability Joy and Justice‘. GSWF 2024 convened feminist activists from Asia, East Africa, and the Pacific across the feminist and disability justice movements under three […]
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Bordering Rights: The globalised double standards of visa regimes
November 2024
“It takes less than a century, it seems, to see the absence of freedom as a natural condition” – Speranta Dumitru, ‘When World Leaders Thought You Shouldn’t Need Passports or Visas’, The Conversation, 27 September 2016. In today’s interconnected world, everyone should have the freedom to travel and pursue opportunities, regardless of nationality or origin. […]
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From Voices to Demands: Outcomes of the Global Tribunal of Women Workers
May 2024
In late 2022, IWRAW Asia Pacific, in collaboration with 28 organisations, convened the Global Tribunal of Women Workers during our annual Global South Women’s Forum. The Global Tribunal was a collaborative, constituency-led, transnational and cross-movement initiative which remained steadfast in centring the lived experiences of women workers. Their stories set out to make visible the […]
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Addressing labour exploitation of women workers through taking forward the outcomes of the Global Tribunal of Women Workers
July 2023
This advocacy toolkit is a collection of materials from the Global Tribunal on Women Workers designed to assist advocacy organisations and interested individuals in undertaking activities to take forward the outcomes of the Tribunal. The toolkit is part of a project that the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham conducted in partnership with IWRAW Asia Pacific, […]
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Disrupting the Development Sector from the Global South
July 2023
On Episode 16 of The Development Hub’s podcast, The Power Shift: Decolonising Development, IWRAW Asia Pacific’s executive director Priyanthi Fernando tells us about her ‘disruptive’ approach to the development sector by continuously asserting Global South perspectives on the work being carried out. Learn how double standards function when activists and practitioners from the Global South […]
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Making the Unheard Heard: The Global Tribunal of Women Workers 2022
February 2023
On 9 October 2022, IWRAW Asia Pacific concluded its Global South Women’s Forum 2022 which hosted the Global Tribunal of Women Workers. The outcome of the Global Tribunal exceeded our expectations. We are pleased that the Global Tribunal was able to make visible many workers who suffer the violation of their human rights in silence, […]
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Global South Women’s Forum 2020: Disrupting Macroeconomics
2021
The fifth Global South Women’s Forum (GSWF), themed ‘Disrupting Macroeconomics’, took place from 14-18 December 2020 as an online festival of myriad formats including panel discussions, talks and training workshops, screenings, and strategy sessions. It marked the end of an extraordinarily difficult and challenging year on a high note by celebrating Global South women’s solidarity […]
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Following the Money: The Kafala System and Chain of Domestic Workers’ Migration
January 2021
This report summarises the discussion during the session of the same name organised by the International Domestic Workers Federation at the Global South Women’s Forum in December 2020. Topics covered include care work and macroeconomic policies, migrant domestic workers’ contributions to their home economies, push and pull factors for their migration, the profits of Lebanon’s […]
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#GSWF2020 Threads
December 2020
The Global South Women’s Forum went virtual in 2020, taking on macroeconomics with Global South feminist voices from around the world. This Twitter Moment shares links to the videos along with IWRAW Asia Pacific’s threads on the sessions.
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Empowering Female and LGBTQIA Artists within the Global Creative Industry: DJ sets from SHAP SHAP
December 2020
SHAP SHAP is a non-profit organisation created in 2015 to take action on global inequalities and racial and gender discriminations through cultural projects. It contributes to empowering the artistic, social, political and economic status of emerging and off-grid artists from the Global South (living in Africa and Latin America, from the diaspora, Afro-Latino descendants in […]
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