2013
In 2013, the Women’s Major Group (WMG)—where DAWN serves as a key coordinating organisation—publishes Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Priorities: Recommendations for the Proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda. In a group of position papers, the report articulates feminist perspectives on the structural changes required for a just and sustainable future. It underscores gender equality, women’s human rights, and social justice as cross-cutting priorities and provides concrete recommendations that helped shape the SDGs, while demonstrating the power of collective feminist advocacy in global policy spaces.
That same year, at the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Montevideo, DAWN and partner organizations convene 35 young feminist activists from across Latin America and the Caribbean to influence the outcome document. Representing movements around sexual and reproductive rights, youth participation, Indigenous rights, and comprehensive sexuality education, the group ensures that equality, human rights, and the lived realities of marginalized communities are placed at the centre of the post-Cairo development agenda.
