Resources
July 2024 submission to inquiry into Australia’s response to the priorities of Pacific Island countries and the Pacific region
IWDA is an Australia-based organisation, resourcing women’s rights organisations primarily in Asia and the Pacific, and making our own contribution to global feminist movements. We are proud of our long-lasting partnerships with women’s rights organisations in the Pacific. We currently partner with 15 organisations in the Pacific, who are based in Fiji, Papua New Guinea,…
Trajectories towards Feminist Foreign Policy Research update (Consultation Draft)
In 2021, IWDA published From Seeds to Roots: Trajectories towards feminist foreign policy, looking at 5 early adopters of FFP (Sweden, France, Canada, Mexico and UK Labour’s commitment to a feminist aid policy). Since then, 10 additional countries have made a formal committed to FFP, with nearly half in the Majority World. At the same…
IWDA DECOLONIAL FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGY
IWDA is deeply committed to decolonising our approach to feminism and development. We recognise that international development has harmful and oppressive roots, and that we must push to transform power within the sector and beyond. This work is critical to our meaningful engagement with global feminist movements and to achieving our overall vision of gender…
WEAVERS Research Report
Introducing ‘The WEAVERS Research Report – The Women’s Rights Movement in Papua New Guinea: where we came from, where we are and where we wish to go’. The WEAVERS Research Report is the outcome of research conducted by Dr Orovu Sepoe (Lead Researcher) and a steering committee of diverse PNG women’s rights advocates and rights…
Transitional justice and women’s representation in peace building: Myanmar and the case for Feminist Foreign Policy
February 2024 marked three years since the start of the military coup which ignited Myanmar’s Spring Revolution. For the first time in the nation’s history, women have been at the forefront of the resistance, making up over 60 percent of the resistance movement.