Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)

DAWN’s second substantive global analysis, titled Reproductive Rights and Population: Feminist Voices from the South, was produced for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in 1994. The analysis illustrated DAWN’s niche role in providing historical analysis, conceptual clarity and strategic direction to organisations working to secure gains for women in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and development. It broke new ground by placing the issues of population and reproductive health and rights within a broader development framework informed by a feminist political economy that is holistic, sustainable and empowering for women. With the interface of neocons and neolibs in global politics, that results in intolerance of and limitations on a number of human rights, DAWN’s work has also focused on the need to surface and link sexual rights issues more prominently in its South-based social equality-political democracy-economic justice analytical frame.

The DAWN Regional Advocacy Tools for Cairo@20 are analysis and advocacy papers from six regions of the global South – South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin America and the MENA region – and are available as PDFs to download from our resources section here.