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| Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a network of feminist scholars, researchers and activists from the economic South working for economic and gender justice and sustainable and democratic development. DAWN provides a forum for feminist research, analyses and advocacy on global issues (economic, social and political) affecting the livelihoods, living standards, rights and development prospects of women, especially poor and marginalized women, in regions of the South. Through research, analyses, advocacy and, more recently, training, DAWN seeks to support women's mobilization within civil society to challenge inequitable social, economic and political relations at global, regional and national levels, and to advance feminist alternatives. |
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CSOs Engage with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat on Conflict, Peace Security and Wider Sustainable Development Issues
Representatives from DAWN, DIVA for Equality (Fiji, LBT), Fiji Women's Rights Movement (Fiji), Punanga Tauturu (Cook Islands), Pacific Disabilities Forum and others were among civil society organisation (CSO) representatives from across the Pacific who were part of a 5 day meeting in Suva Fiji from 6-10 May 2013 to discuss human rights issues centred sustainable development, good governance, peace, conflict and security in the region.
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Pacific Feminists and Activists: Re-framing, Re-articulating and Re-energizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights!
[Updated with Report and Regional CSO Outcomes]
An inaugural gathering of women and trans* people from key Pacific civil society organisations (CSOs), networks and alliances was held in Nadi, Fiji
from the 12-15 February 2013, to take stock of the progress in SRHR made over the past 20 years by State and non-State actors.
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Women's Caucus Statement Bali High Level Panel Meeting
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DAWN Activities at World Social Forum 2013 in Tunisia
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We Will Not be Mainstreamed into a Polluted Stream: Feminist Statement on the 2015 Development Agenda
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Statement on Concerns of Women's Organizations over Negotiations on CSW 57 Outcome Document
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Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Post-2015 Development Framework
DAWN's Anita Nayar gives remarks during the expert panel at 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York. The event called "Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Post-2015 Development Framework" was convened by UN Women on March 7, 2013. The Panelists were Irina Velichko (Belarus) {CHAIR}; Caren Grown (USAID); John Hendra (UNW); Amina Mohammed (HLP Post-2015) and Anita Nayar (India/USA).
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| Keeping Informed |
Political Transitions Not Always a Positive Experience for Women
This piece features excerpts from the report entitled Women, Gender Equality and Political Transitions: Lessons Learned from Asia, 1980s - 2000s / Summary of Proceedings from the Regional Expert Meeting Seoul 4-5 December 2012. The report was based on a meeting titled Women, Gender Equality and Political Transitions: What Can We Learn from the Past Three Decades in Asia? was convened by Kamala Chandrakirana, Chair of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women in Law and in Practice, in collaboration with The Korean Women’s Development Institute (KDWI) on the 4th and 5th of December 2012 in Seoul, Korea.
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