Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR)

The Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR) is an international initiative in the area of gender and economic, social and cultural rights. From its base in India, PWESCR works to promote women’s human rights, especially in the context of economic, social and cultural rights by bringing a gender framework to policy, law and practice at local, national, regional and international levels through ever-evolving strategies and activities in both conceptual and practical realms. 

• Email: pwescr@pwescr.org 

• Twitter: @pwescr

• Facebook: @PWESCR

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Publications

• Chacko, S., Montes, M. F., Hopkins, E., Williams, M., Darooka, P., Zhao, Z., Chaves, P. (2021). International Financial Institutions and Using Country Systems: Implications for Gender Equality. BRICS Feminist Watch and PWESCR.

• Chacko, S. (2021). Financing in the Times of the Pandemic: Gender Implication of IFIs Support to India during the Covid-19 Pandemic. BRICS Feminist Watch and PWESCR.

• Kelkar, G. and Sengupta, S. (2019). Women and Green Economy: Engaging with New Development Bank. BRICS Feminist Watch and PWESCR.

• Chacko, S. (2017). Taking it to the Bank: Gender Issues at the New Development Bank. PWESCR.

• PWESCR (2015). Financing for Development: Addis Ababa and Beyond Feminist Perspective from the Global South.

Priti Darooka

• Currently based in: India

• Email: pdarooka@pwescr.org

• Other affiliations: BRICS Feminist Watch

• Publication and/or resources:

  • Lahiri, B. (2023). ‘Can India’s G20 Presidency Offer Women Transformative Changes?’ PWESCR. 

  • Singh, N. (2023). ‘BRICS: Navigating Gender amidst Geopolitics, Expansionism, and De-dollarisation.’ PWESCR.

  • Darooka, P. and Basnyat, K. (2021). Women and G20: Inclusion or Exclusion.

  • Darooka, P. and Dand, S. (2019). AIIB's Winding Roads to Inequality: A Gender Case Study from Gujarat. BRICS Feminist Watch.