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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Tulo 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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“Justification was not provided”: Visa Inequalities and the Violation of the Rights of Global South Activists to Representation at the United Nations in Geneva, 2023-2024
February 2025
This document is a follow-up to the shadow report submitted by IWRAW Asia Pacific in September 2022 for Switzerland’s review during the 83rd CEDAW session. Titled ‘Switzerland as Gatekeeper: The impact of visa application processes on Global South civil society representation at the United Nations’, the report addressed Switzerland’s unique position as host to the […]
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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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The UK’s Extraterritorial Obligations and the Right to Health in a Time of Polycrisis
August 2024
This report was submitted on behalf of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine Campaign (FPV), of which IWRAW Asia Pacific is a member, and the Campaign Against Racism (CAR), to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) in advance of its consideration of the 18th and 19th periodic reports of the […]
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