2025 What does it mean to be 40? That’s the question we’ve been asking ourselves. DAWN turned 40, marking four decades of feminist research, activism, and solidarity across the global South. To celebrate, DAWN launched its first Fellowship for young…
2025 The DAWN Rising Fellowship, is a new programme, launched in 2025, to support young women feminists from the global South. The inaugural fellowship focused on the Political Economy of Gender-Based Violence and Conflict, offers an opportunity for an emerging…
2024 Commencing in 2024, DAWN advances research on feminist macroeconomics to respond to shifting global dynamics marked by financialisation, austerity, debt regimes, technological change, and corporate power in post-pandemic recovery. This initiative examines how such processes reshape livelihoods, deepen inequalities,…
2022-2025 After contributing to the adoption of CEDAW’s General Recommendation 30 on women’s human rights in conflict and post-conflict contexts in 2013, DAWN later expands its engagement with Treaty Bodies through the submission of shadow reports, oral statements, and participation…
2022 -2024 As China advances its most ambitious international strategies—including the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), BRICS cooperation, and expanding regional partnerships—its influence across the global South has profound social, economic, and political implications. While much analysis has focused on…
2020 In partnership with the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG), DAWN’s Blue Economy project starts examining ocean-based development from a Southern feminist and deeply Pacific perspective, tracking regional and global trends, including corporate-state initiatives such as deep-sea mining (DSM), in…
2020 As corporations across the globe captured more and more of the public sphere, encroaching on all aspects of people’s lives, Public-Private Partnerships have become a powerful tool to achieve what is starting to look like the privatisation of life…
2020 In 2020, DAWN launches two major initiatives in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the umbrella of Pandemic Portals. The first, Policy Transformations (PT), offers a critical feminist analysis of state responses across four key areas: Macroeconomics, Labour…
2019 – 2024 In 2019 DAWN launches The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence Against Women, building on nearly a decade of work on the theme. The book examines how political, economic, social, and ideological processes intersect to shape conflict-related,…
2019 Together with UNFPA and the Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters journal, DAWN, with Gita Sen as coeditor, produces a Special Issue of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, ICPD25: Accelerating accountability for SRHR. DAWN’s presence at the Nairobi Summit is…