2000 Building on its Political Restructuring and Social Transformation (PRST) project launched in 1998, DAWN prioritises a Southern feminist analysis of shifting state power, social movements, and multilateralisms under economic globalisation. This work culminates in Marketisation of Governance: Critical Feminist…
1995 Ahead of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, DAWN launches Markers on the Way: The DAWN Debates on Alternative Development, coordinated by Gita Sen. Rooted in years of regional consultations across the global South, the publication…
1994 DAWN is very active in the preparations for the ICPD as well as at ICPD itself and thereafter. Rosina Wiltshire, Gita Sen, Sonia Corrêa, and Peggy Antrobus of DAWN contribute to Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate, which challenges…
1992 Well before 1992 and the Earth Summit (UN Conference on Environment and Development) in Rio de Janeiro, women’s groups across all regions of the world were active at the forefront of efforts linking social, environmental, and economic dimensions of…
1990 In 1990, DAWN holds an inter-regional meeting in Rio de Janeiro, with over 100 participants to assess progress since the Nairobi Conference and to strategise in preparation for upcoming UN conferences on environment, human rights, population and development, and…
July 1985 Nairobi, Kenya Published as a book written by Gita Sen and Caren Grown for DAWN, Development, Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women’s Perspectives makes a significant impact at the UN Conference on Women in Nairobi in 1985…
1984 Bergen, Norway Following the Bangalore meeting, DAWN undertakes extensive outreach research with women and development networks, gathering grounded perspectives from the global South, which are then debated and incorporated into a draft that would become DAWN’s first book. A…
2020 – 2023 Feminist Digital Justice (FDJ) is a collaborative research and advocacy initiative launched in 2020 by DAWN and IT for Change that reimagines the emerging techno-social paradigm from a Southern feminist perspective. As part of the Just Net…
1984 Bangalore, India In August 1984, feminists from across the global South gather in Bangalore, India, to prepare for the UN Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi (1985). Confronting a global context of mounting debt, food, and fuel crises,…
1986 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Forging its own structure to keep organising and mobilising within the global South, DAWN initially forms a seven-member steering committee and briefly houses its first secretariat at the Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST) in…