Democracy Under Attack features Kumudini Samuel (DAWN Executive Committee) and María Graciela Cuervo (DAWN General Co-Coordinator) sharing their thoughts about the recent surge in right wing politics across the globe and its nefarious consequences in the global South. The challenges it presents to feminist movements as well as ideas about what democracy really means to different groups.

In this series of videos, we invite you to experience what DAWN’s analysis looks like, presented live at an international meeting. We join forces with partners and friends from other organisations to think through and discuss contemporary issues such as corporate capture, religious extremism, biopolitics and the climate crisis.

DAWN owes its sustained activism throughout the years to all the great women who have committed their time, strength, and expertise to build critical South analyses of global issues. Strategically located as a feminist network within the paradoxical spaces opened by globalisation, DAWN engages with other networks in its advocacy for gender, economic and ecological justice as well as sustainable and democratic development. The meeting where this video was captured is an example of this process.