[3] In the mid-1980s, she was involved in the lobbying for the enactment of the Domestic Violence Act (which was eventually passed by parliament in 1994).
She has since 2004 served on the UN's Gender Equality Task Force,[4] and on the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
[citation needed] In 2010, Dairiam was appointed as one of three UN experts to lead an inquiry into the Israeli navy's response to the Marmara flotilla that sought to break a blockade of Gaza.
[7] Dairiam is the founder and a current director of International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific, a global south feminist organisation devoted to the implementation of the CEDAW convention.
Shanthi's book, A Woman's Right To Equality: The Promise Of CEDAW, was launched at the Beijing +20 conference in Bangkok, Thailand in 2014.