2018 The Escuela de Economía Feminista (School of Feminist Economics, SFE) promoted by DAWN and co-organised with feminist organisations across Latin America and the Global South, is a training space designed to share analysis and tools for developing critical perspectives…
2015 At the 48th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) in 2015—marking Cairo+20—DAWN launches a special issue of Global Public Health following two years of collaborative research. Co-hosted with the governments of the Philippines and Denmark, the…
2014 DAWN launches Breaking Through the Development Silos: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Millennium Development Goals and Gender Equity, a collection of case studies designed to provide robust evidence for global advocacy on SRHR and gender equality in the…
2013 In 2013, the Women’s Major Group (WMG)—where DAWN serves as a key coordinating organisation—publishes Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Priorities: Recommendations for the Proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda. In a group of position…
2012 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil As at the Earth Summit, DAWN plays a central and highly visible role at the Rio+20 Conference, producing a rigorous set of feminist recommendations that shaped global discourse on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and…
2010 In response to these global crises and acknowledging the urgent need for more effective and interlinked regional feminist responses from the economic South, DAWN works on resistance iniatives on its own terms. A series of regional consultations and training…
2009 Beginning in 2009, DAWN convenes feminist activists from conflict-affected contexts—including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and India—to produce self-reflective case studies on women’s activism in times of war, transition, and economic collapse. These narratives reveal how violence and insecurity are…
2006 In 2006, DAWN launches Interlinking Policy, Politics and Women’s Reproductive Rights, a comprehensive global policy research initiative on health sector reform, maternal mortality, and abortion, coordinated by Sonia Corrêa and conducted across twelve countries of the global South. Building…
2003 Bangalore, India In 2003, DAWN launches its first DAWN Training Institute (DTI) in Bangalore, India, bringing together 28 young feminist activists for three weeks of intensive collective learning. The curriculum includes debates on themes of globalisation, political economy, ecological…
2001 Porto Alegre, Brazil The World Social Forum (WSF), launches in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001 as a counter-space to the Davos World Economic Forum, quickly grows into a global arena for resistance—replicated in local, regional, and thematic forums worldwide.…