DAWN went to the AWID 9th International Forum on Women's Rights and Development, on Reinventing Globalisation, held 3-6 October 2002 in Guadalajara, Mexico. DAWN gave a panel on Genderscapes in Paradoxical Time and Spaces, DAWN representatives spoke on various other panels, and the Regional Coordinator for Anglophone Africa, Bene Madunagu, spoke at the opening plenary session. Her paper is on Current Neoliberal Development: Feminist Alternatives; papers from the DAWN panel and other discussions include:
Sighting paradoxes for gender in the social movements by
Gigi Francisco. DAWN-Southeast Asia Regional Coordinator;
At the site of human rights by Sonia Correa, DAWN Research Coordinator for Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health;
Seeking alternatives on trade and investments by Gigi Francisco, based on earlier presentations by Marina Durano of DAWN-SEA at the Asian Social Movements Meeting in Bangkok, 10-12 August 2002; Social Watch Strategy Meeting in Morocco, 20-22 June 2002; and WIDE Information Sheet, August 2002;
From Doha to Cancun, by DAWN-SEA Regional Coordinator Gigi Francisco, IGTN-Asia.
The Cartagena Feminist Initiative also held a panel at the AWID Forum, on Femnist Proposals for New Paradigms. Speakers included Rosalba Torado, who discussed new institutions for new labour relations, and Alma Espino, who looked Beyond FfD.
For more papers and information, see November 2002 DAWN Informs, available soon.
Below: the DAWN panel at the AWID Forum, from left, Francophone Africa Regional Coordinator, Fatou Sow; Former General Coordinator, Peggy Antrobus; DAWN-SEA Regional Coordinator, Gigi Francisco; Political Restructuring and Social Transformation Research Coordinator, Viviene Taylor; and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Research Coordinator, Sonia Correa.

Gigi Francisco, DAWN Regional Coordinator for Southeast Asia, addresses the Opening Plenary of the ASEM4 People's Forum Copenhagen, 19 September 2002 on "How can human rights bridge the cultures of Asia and Europe?" and at the plenary on Social and political rights under pressure on 20 September on "Women's rights have been under pressure forever"

Whose Security? by CHARLOTTE BUNCH, from The NATION September 23, 2002 issue: "It is clear that feminists in the United States do not have much impact on US foreign policy, which is military- and corporate-driven."
Follow the World Summit on Sustainable Development process to Johannesburg, 2-11 September 2002.

DAWN Supplement for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 26 August - 4 September 2002

Report on the 23rd SID Congress, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 4-7 July 2002, from DAWN Anglophone Africa Regional Coordinator, Bene Madunagu.

DAWN Informs May 2002 with articles on WSSD leading to the Bali PrepCom, 27 May-2 June 2002.

Letter of concern to Israel Government, 3 April 2002

The Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights has produced its 15th Call to Women for Action on the theme, International Trade Agreements and Women's Access to Healthcare. The text explains the rather complicated arrangements of the trade agreements, especially TRIPS and GATS, and how they decrease women's access to medicine and health services all over the world. Booklets are available from the network, which has a website at www.wgnrr.org and an email address, office@wgnrr.nl

Financing for Development process including:

World Social Forum 2002

Gender, Human Rights and Weapons: Brazilian Diplomacy Caught in the Eye of the Storm. An examination by Magaly Pazello of the connections between Safiya Husseini, Mary Robinson and Brazilian Ambassador Bustani.

UNHIV/AIDS Conference Process

"People's Health Before Patents" campaign

Regional News

Tribute to Grace Mera Molisa, of Vanuatu

REFLECTIONS ON NEW DIRECTIONS FOR AFRICAN WOMEN, a paper presented by DAWN Anglophone Regional Coordinator, Bene E. Madunagu, of Nigeria, at the joint meeting of the Society for Development (SID) and DAWN Africa in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 13-16 December 2001.
Meeting Report

Local Realities and Global Action: Women Responding to Globalization
Presentation sponsored by Development Studies, Women's Studies
and The Coady International Institute, St.Francis Xavier University, Antigonish. By Peggy Antrobus. (17 September 2001)

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Health Deterioration in India: the impact of the structural economic reforms of the 1990s. By Gita Sen

Health Deterioration in India: the impact of the structural economic reforms of the 1990s. By Gita Sen

Follow the UNHIV/AIDS Conference Process

Follow the "people'ss health before patents" campaigns

	DAWN Informa, February 2001 issue (Spanish Language edition.) Size: 540K Download
DAWN Informs, February 2001 issue (French Language edition.)
	A STATEMENT OF COMMON CONCERNS on racism from Africa, Asia, Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean women was made at the 45th Session of the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women held in New York, 6-16 March, 2001. The CSW session had a focus on gedner and race. The statement was presented by Cecilia Millan, of DAWN and REPEM (Red Latinoamericane y del Caribe Educacion entre Mujeres). It is a working document of the African, Asia-Pacific and Latin American and Caribbean Women's Caucuses in preparation for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, WCAR, to be held 31 August-7 September 2001 in South Africa.
DAWN Informs, February 2001 includes a lead article the World Social Forum from Gigi Francisco, and a run-down on the lead-up to the Financing For Development event with an abstract Mariama Williams' paper on Mobilising International Resources for Development - Foreign Direct Investment and other private flows, and trade. There is some background on the World Conference on Racism, WTO updates, current campaigns and new DAWN books.
Follow the Financing For Development process DAWN is engaging in the Financing For Development process which is leading to a high level meeting organised by the United Nations, www.un.org/esa/ffd , scheduled for the first quarter of 2002. Mariama Williams attended the NGO Hearing, 5-9 November 2000 in New York and made a presentation on Mobilising International Resources for Development - Foreign Direct Investment and Other Private Flows, and Trade. A Women's Caucus involving organisations including DAWN and REPEM that was formed following the NGO hearings has issued a statement at the PrepCom. Other women's and civil society organisations are involved in the process, including . Third World Network www.twnside.org.sg , Unifem www.unifem.undp.org, Centre of Concern www.coc.org, and WEDO, Women's Environment and Development Organisation www.wedo.org, or connect to the list serve ffdngocaucus@egroups.com . Also check the calendar of events connected with the FFD process. The latest issue of the DAWN newsletter, DAWN Informs, also contains material on FFD.
Los Desafios de la Globalizacion (Spanish translation, UvA Development Lecture 1997) Gita Sen, Montevideo, REPEM (1998)
	DAWN's latest publication, Weighing up Cairo: Evidence from women of the South, is a collection of papers reviewing the progress that has been made in safeguarding reproductive health and rights since ICPD.
	Marketisation of Governance: Critical Feminist Perspectives from the South DAWN's third global analysis based on the findings of commissioned regional research and consultations, which strongly critiques global financial and trade institutions for remodelling the state to support global economic, financial and trade liberalisation and for eroding its capacity to meet national social and development needs. Marketisation of Governance 30-minute video produced for DAWN by WAYANG and released at Geneva 2000.
DAWN Informs November Newsletter, 2/2000.