2009
Beginning in 2009, DAWN convenes feminist activists from conflict-affected contexts—including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and India—to produce self-reflective case studies on women’s activism in times of war, transition, and economic collapse. These narratives reveal how violence and insecurity are mediated through shifting cultural, religious, economic, and gendered power structures.
DAWN works collaboratively in this process, with International Women’s Rights Action Watch-Asia Pacific (IWRAW), Women and Media Collective (WMC), Sri Lanka the Global Network of Women Peace-builders (GNWP), Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and WILD for Human Rights with the University of California at Berkeley Law School.
This collaborative effort makes it possible for DAWN to make substantive contributions to the elaboration of CEDAW (Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) through General Recommendation 30 on Protection of Women’s Human Rights in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts (2013). DAWN intervenes to define the obligations of States for conduct and policies affecting rights extra-territorially including the impact caused by actions and inaction of state and non-state actors, including IFIs and UN agencies. CEDAW GR 30 was adopted in 2013.
