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 the Fourth World Conference on Women. The meeting marks a decisive advance from critique to constructive agenda-setting. DAWN commits to widening its scope of analysis and action, launching programmes of work on environment, reproductive rights, and population and development, while continuing its pioneering analysis of alternatives to dominant development models. The gathering reinforces DAWN’s resolve to advance transformative feminist frameworks in partnership with allies and to deepen engagement with global, regional and national institutions shaping the development agenda.