Women’s Unpaid and Underpaid Work in the Times of COVID-19 – https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/news-and-events/stories/2020/06/womens-unpaid-and-underpaid-work-in-the-times-of-covid-19
COVID-19, Gender and Disability Checklist: Preventing and Addressing Gender-Based Violence Against Women, Girls and Gender Non-Confirming Persons with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic:
A gendered analysis of child protection systems responses in COVID-19 programming in South Asia: https://www.unicef.org/rosa/reports/gendered-analysis-child-protection-systems-responses-covid-19-programming-south-asia
IWRAW’s Critique of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38 on Trafficking in Women & Girls in the Context of Global Migration:
Disruptions in health services due to COVID-19 “may have contributed to an additional 239,000 child and maternal deaths in South Asia” – UN report: https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/disruptions-health-services-due-covid-19-may-have-contributed-additional-239000
Call for comments : The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is currently elaborating a General Recommendation on Gender-Related Dimensions of Disaster Risk Reduction in a Changing Climate. The Committee decided to invite all interested parties to submit comments in writing on the “Draft General Recommendation on DRRCC” (to be indicated in the subject title) to the […]
Call for comments The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is currently elaborating a General Recommendation on Gender-Related Dimensions of Disaster Risk Reduction in a Changing Climate. The Committee decided to invite all interested parties to submit comments in writing on the “Draft General Recommendation on DRRCC” (to be indicated in the subject title) to the following […]
On 25 November 2015, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, The Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Dubravka Šimonović called on all States to establish a “femicide watch”, or a “gender-related killing of women” watch. In her most recent report to the General Assembly (A/71/398), the […]
The Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Dubravka Šimonović took up function as Special Rapporteur on 1 August 2015 and intends to, inter alia, focus on the legal and policy frameworks of her mandate and the international human rights mechanisms to discuss the gap in incorporating and implementing the international and regional […]
PLD is organizing a training workshop on the new laws relating to sexual violence, on October 1st, 2nd,3rd and 4th of 2014. This workshop seeks to understand the challenges and working of each of the 3 laws on sexual offences in detail, and take stock of their implementation. The discussion would include: -Gaining clarity on […]
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