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Together with UNFPA and the Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters journal, DAWN, with Gita Sen as coeditor, produces a Special Issue of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, ICPD25: Accelerating accountability for SRHR. DAWN’s presence at the Nairobi Summit is significant with key speaking slots including in the opening plenary.
Gita Sen is also one of the “champions of change” whose work is highlighted by the State of World Population reflecting on the 25 years of ICPD. “Sen was prominent in mobilizing the global groundswell of civil society that forever shifted understanding of population and development” at the 1994 ICPD, when “the irresistible force of the women’s movement” -in Sen’s words- was demonstrated. “Twenty-five years later, the world is a much more difficult place for human rights. The backlash against women and feminism has been huge,” Sen reflects, “But the fact that the ICPD agenda is still going tells us about the strength of what we achieved.”