Bio

Cai Yiping is from China and as an Executive Committee (EC) Member co-leads DAWN’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) thematic analysis team with Vanita Mukherjee. Cai Yiping is a feminist activist and researcher actively engaging in women’s movements in China and internationally. She was Associate Researcher at the Women’s Studies Institute of China (2006-2008) and was a journalist for China Women’s News (1995-2005), writing extensively on the issue of women’s human rights. She has served as a member of UN Women’s Asia Pacific Civil Society Advisory Group from 2013 to 2016 and is an advisor of the Asia-Pacific Civil Society Regional Engagement Mechanism which was established in May 2014.