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Gender IFI Summer School: Advocacy for Feminist Tax Justice

August 2023

In this session at the inaugural Bretton Woods Project Gender IFI Summer School held in August 2023, IWRAW Asia Pacific programme officer Hazel Birungi moderates a conversation with Aurea Mouzinho from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) and Sahar Mechmech from Oxfam. The panel discusses their experience with global campaigning on tax and gender, […]

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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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Equality Bahamas CEDAW Speaker Series: Article 13 with Constanza Pauchulo

July 2023

The CEDAW (Convention) Speaker Series, organised by Equality Bahamas, is designed to familiarise members of the public with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Each month, one expert takes a look at one Article of the Convention, its interpretation, its application to the Bahamian context, and the most […]

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Promoting the Equality of Women: IWRAW Asia Pacific’s Journey, by Shanthi Dairiam

May 2023

Promoting the Equality of Women: IWRAW Asia Pacific’s Journey, by our founder, Shanthi Dairiam, narrates Shanthi’s journey during the founding years of IWRAW Asia Pacific. Beginning in 1993, Shanthi details the rich history of her work in establishing IWRAW Asia Pacific as a Global South-centric feminist organisation, bringing women’s realities into international human rights standards […]

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