Category Timeline Dawn

What does it mean to be 40?

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…

A Feminist Approach to Macroeconomics

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,…

Advocating for Gender Justice and Accountability

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…

Gender impact of China’s engagement in the Global South

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…

Resisting extractivism, defending lifeways of Ocean people

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…