International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP)
International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP) is a feminist organisation committed to the full realisation of women’s human rights through the pursuit of equality. IWRAW-AP acts to disrupt structures, systems and institutions that violate women’s human rights and engages in movement building that amplifies women’s voices and activism to create alternative political narratives and spaces.
General Publications
Chakma, T. and Yahaya, D. (2022) Gender Equality and Macroeconomics (GEM) Training Manual
Factsheet: IWRAW Asia Pacific, 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. Regional Judicial Colloquium for Eastern & Southern Africa: Access to justice for women’s economic rights (2021)
Priyanthi Fernando
Currently based in: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Publications and resources:
Priyanthi Fernando on ‘Empowering Women in the Workplace’ at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting in Bali (2018).
Ariyarathne, T., Lokuge, G., Najab, N., and Fernando, P. (2012). ‘The vulnerability of women in the economy.’
Fernando, P. and Moonesinghe, S. (2012). ‘Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in Sri Lanka.’ Working paper 6. Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium.
Sanjana Hattotuwa talks to Priyanthi Fernando, Executive Director, Centre for Poverty Analysis (2012).
Constanza Pauchulo
Currently based in: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Publications and resources:
Report Summary. Pauchulo, C. (2021) Global South Women’s Forum 2020: Disrupting Macroeconomics.
IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings Civil Society Forum session: Creating a Caring Economy: The role of IFIs and the CEDAW framework in transformative change. Organised by International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, Third World Network, International Domestic Workers Federation, Bretton Woods Project, Shirakat – Partnership for Development, Womankind Worldwide, Global Alliance for Tax Justice (23 March 2021).
Webinar: Mobilising for a Feminist Trade Justice within the UN. Organised by IWRAW-AP and the Gender and Trade Coalition (2020).
Webinar: Sustainable and Just Economies: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Crisis and Enabling Factors for the SDGs. Organised by UNRISD (10 July 2020).
Shanti Uprety
Currently based in: Nepal, Asia Pacific
Publications and resources:
Uprety, S. (2020). ‘Enhancing worker protections in a post-covid-19 world: the urgent need for C190.’ IWRAW-AP.