Metamorphosis: IWRAW Asia Pacific’s 2025 Annual Report
June 2026
IWRAW Asia Pacific’s 2025 Annual Report details our work undertaken in the first year of our new strategic plan, Cultivating Rights, Rooting Resilience. Read through the report for updates on our work, analyses on women’s human rights in different contexts, and learnings from our newly introduced Monitoring, Evaluation, Adaptation and Learning portfolio.
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CEDAW Submission: Commentary on the Draft Text of General Recommendation no. 41
June 2026
This commentary was submitted by IWRAW Asia Pacific and partner organisations Akanksha Seva Sadan, the Asia Feminist LBQ Network, Bonhishikha, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Nirantar Trust, the Women’s Legal Centre (WLC), and Youth Unity for Voluntary Action (YUVA). It provides feminist perspectives on the draft text of CEDAW General Recommendation no. […]
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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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“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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