Anglophone Africa
Francophone Africa
Caribbean
Latin America
Pacific
South Asia
South East Asia 

Anglophone Africa
DAWN participated strongly in the AMANITARE Conference, Johannesburg, 4-7 February 2003, and received an award for its work in sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Research and documenting abortion legal frameworks, incidences and practices will be a focus of S&RH&R work in this region. Anglophone Africa Regional Coordinator, Bene Madunagu, spoke at a number of recent meetings including a sexuality and advocacy workshop for African women's networks, and a meeting in Nigeria on abortion, which created a backlash but opened up useful debate.

Bene Madunagu gave a presentation on women's rights and girls' rights in Africa at the UNICEF/SID/Bernard Van Leer Foundation roundtable on Building Bridges for Equality - mobilising actions for the human rights of children and women, at the UN in New York, 14-15 June 2001.

Francophone Africa
A special meeting was held in Douala in January 1999 to prepare the region's case studies for Cairo+5.

Francophone and Anglophone Africa held a combined meeting in Zanzibar, 21-25 February 2001 and identified networks to assist in pursueing DAWN's S&RH&R platform. Dina Nfon Prison, who is coordinating S&RH&R and the state work from Cameroon, is part of a Task Force withthe Centre for African Family Studies which is assessing population and reproductive health NGOs. She attended the 45th session of the CSW in March 2001 on the theme of HIV/AIDS.

Caribbean
Work on S&RH&R in the Caribbean is focusing on the impact of health sector reforms on women's reproductive health, and on the range and quality of reproductive health services.

Health for all by the year 2000 ceased to be a pan-Caribbean objective and was replaced by rising costss of health care and contractions of services offered by the state. The focus of DAWN Caribben research is therefore to investigate the inconsistencies between health sector reform and various platforms of action signed by governmentsin relagtion to ICPD, Beijijg, Copenhagen, CEDAW and UNFPA Declaration on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

A meeting of researchers in March 2001 dealth with the high incidence of HIV/AIDS in the region, with young women emerging as the group most at risk of infection. Space for working with young people in Surinam and Barbados has opened up.

Latin America
DAWN Latin America is working in close partnership with national and regional organisations to coordinate the region's campaign for decriminalising abortion, designing policy-oriented strategies aimed at influencing regional institutions and processes, and a research programme to track oppositional forces. DAWN/REPEM continues working in close partnership iwth Campana 28 de Setiembre and disseminates information. Celita Eccher and Ximena Machicao presented a set of proposals on behalf of DAWN to a CLADEM meeting on the Campaign for the Convention of Sexual and Reproductive Rights 14-15 November 2000

Pacific
The Pacific Coordinator for S&RH&R worked on the book edited by Sonia Correa, Weighing Up Cairo: Evidence from Women of the South, published in December 2000.

South Asia
Post-Cairo, DAWN South Asia has been involved in Health Watch, a network comprising some 200 NGOs, operating in India, and has been very involved in the ICPD+5 process.

South East Asia
DAWN participated in a workshop on Sexuality and Social Change: an Agenda for Research and Action in the 21st Century, held in Rio de Janeiro 3-6 December 2000. South East Asia Regional Coordinator, Gigi Francisco, was a discussant in the panel on Sexuality and Social Change.

An article on the state of Philippine Reproductive Health Care is included in the new DAWN publication on ICPD+5, Weigh up Cairo. For other case studies from the region, DAWN relied on the excellent research produced by ARROW, Asia Pacific Research and Resource Centre for Women.