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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Tula Twogere: Reframing Gendered Economic Violence
October 2025
In June 2025, IWRAW Asia Pacific held the Tula Twogere in Nairobi, Kenya. It brought together a diverse group of feminist legal practitioners, scholars, activists, policy actors, and community organisers from across the Global South to critically examine and reframe gendered economic violence. Anchored in intersectionality and collective care, the convening sought to develop a […]
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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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Feminist Learning Exchange: Defining Retrogression and Capture in the Context of Women’s Human Rights in Asia (FLEX)
April 2022
The Feminist Learning Exchange: Defining Retrogression and Capture in the Context of Women’s Human Rights in Asia (FLEX) aims to consolidate feminist knowledge and analyse the social, political, economic and legal context of women and marginalised groups organising to claim their rights; and to understand how women’s rights groups advocate for the rights of marginalised […]
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Pathway to Gender Equality: A Perspective from South Asia
February 2022
This presentation was delivered by Prof. Savitri Goonesekere at the Marriage and Property Rights Pathways for Gender Equality in Africa and Asia workshop on 22 June 2021.
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Regional Judicial Colloquium for Eastern & Southern Africa: Access to justice for women’s economic rights
July 2021
On 22 and 23 July 2021, IWRAW Asia Pacific alongside the Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA), the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), and the Miami School of Law, organised a regional judicial colloquium for Eastern and Southern Africa with a specific […]
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StIC Project: Stories of Change
2019
The Strengthening Implementation of CEDAW (StIC) Project, implemented from June 2017 to May 2019, focused on women’s economic, social and cultural rights, access to justice, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in South and Southeast Asia, with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) serving as the primary framework. […]
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Strengthening Implementation of CEDAW: Review of the StIC Project
2019
The Strengthening Implementation of CEDAW (StIC) project, addressing women’s economic, social and cultural rights; access to justice; and the Sustainable Development Goals, was initiated to promote the regional feminist agenda in South and Southeast Asia, with a national-level focus on Bangladesh, Nepal, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. This video contextualises the project and outlines its achievements, with […]
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Deklarasi Kolombo
June 2019
Pada tanggal 20-22 Maret 2019 di Kolombo, Sri Lanka, IWRAW Asia Pacific bekerjasama dengan The Law and Society Trust telah mengadakan Regional Judicial Colloquium dengan tema Akses Keadilan dan Hak-hak Perempuan untuk Kesetaraan dalam Keluarga. Seminar ini dihadiri oleh para hakim, praktisi hukum, komisi HAM, dan aktivis perempuan dan anak di wilayah Asia Selatan dan […]
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The Colombo Declaration
April 2019
The Colombo Declaration on the Role of the Judiciary in Advancing Women’s Right to Equality in Marriage and Family Relations was adopted by participants in IWRAW Asia Pacific’s regional judicial colloquium on access to justice for women’s right to equality in the context of the family, held in Colombo in March 2019. This eight-page PDF […]
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