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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era)

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#DAWNfeminist is an organisation of feminist researchers & activists from the #GlobalSouth working for gender and economic justice, human rights & sustainable development

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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How does a space for collectively imagining feminist alternatives look like? 🔎 In July, Cali welcomed us for the 34th IAFFE Annual Conference. DAWN actively participated in the conversation, addressing the challenges of economies that threaten the sustainability of life. 1/5 🧵
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When you navigate the DAWN Interactive Timeline, one truth is undeniable: austerity is not a natural disaster; it is a political choice to "save" state money at the expense of women's lives 🛑. We have fought this neoliberal system for nearly four decades. #DAWN40 1/4 🧵
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Desde la Confluencia Feminista de Economias Transformadoras nos sumamos a esta acción global en defensa de la democracia y en apoyo a lxs compañerxs de Brasil que enfrentan las elecciones presidenciales el 4/10. ¡Todas con el corazón en Brasil!
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Gender” and “sexual and reproductive rights” were fiercely fought for 🗣️🔥. In this interview, Gita Sen and Sonia Corrêa take us back to the 1994 ICPD in Cairo 👇. Where DAWN acted as the “honest broker,” bridging deep divisions between women’s rights groups from the global North and South. 1/2 🧵
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We begin our #DAWNMoments series with Dr. Cirila P. Limpangog, who reflects on her journey since the first DAWN Training Institute in 2003! 🧶 For her, that DTI was a spark: it cemented that SRHR cannot exist in silos, but must be embedded into broader human rights & sustainable development agendas.
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is nothing "green" about turning the ocean floor into the next frontier of extractive colonialism. 🌊🛑 DAWN founder Claire Slatter (Fiji) exposes how Global North corporations use "green tech" demand to justify Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific. 🧵 1/2
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
➡️ Swipe through our latest "Then & Now" to explore DAWN’s historical framework the Political Economy of Conflict and Violence Against Women (PECVW). Our framework exposes how gendered violence is a calculated macroeconomic tool driven by militarisation, extractivism, and neoliberal austerity.
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How does war radically transform the roles of care and economy? 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 In our second dive into the 2026 DAWN Rising Fellowship, we are exploring “Breadwinners Under Fire”, the feminist investigation led by Palestinian visual artist Ruba Hassan. #DAWNRisingFellowship
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📢 Meet Ruba Hassan, our 2026 DAWN Rising Fellow! We are proud to introduce Palestinian visual artist Ruba Hassan 🎨. Through her fellowship project, "Breadwinners Under Fire”, Ruba examines the shifting social and economic roles of women in Gaza. #FeministResearch #DAWNRisingFellowship
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"What I carry forward from this fellowship extends well beyond the pages I wrote" ✍️ As part of her journey as our 2025–26 DAWN Rising Fellow, Nour Bader recently participated in the 'Specters of the Undercommons' conference at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, in April 2026. #DAWNFellowship
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As we conclude the 2025–2026 DAWN Rising Fellowship, we celebrate Palestinian sociologist, farmer, and feminist Nour Bader. With her epistemic resistance and radical care, she restores women's lived experiences as legitimate, foundational sites from which decolonial feminist theory emerges. 1/5 🧵
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Our movements cannot reproduce the inequalities we fight against ✊🏾🌍 In 2001, thousands of activists convened in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for the first World Social Forum (WSF). Created as a counter-offensive to the Davos World Economic Forum, the event birthed the slogan "Another World is Possible".
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We cannot save the environment while ignoring global trade rules 🌐 At the 1992 Earth Summit, Peggy Antrobus & DAWN feminists exposed true climate justice requires economic transformation, not just technocratic fixes. 🔗 Learn more on dawnfeminist.org/40-years-imagining…
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The false promises of "green growth" are not new 🛑🌱. Back in 1992, during the Earth Summit, DAWN published “Environment and Development”, connecting ecology with gender, poverty, and global inequality long before these issues dominated the global agenda. #DAWN40
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Whose vision of the Pacific will shape our future❓🌊 DAWN is pleased to share the third publication in our Peace Under-Sea Siege Policy Brief Series. Read it at www.dawnfeminist.org #OceanofPeace #ClimateJustice #ProtectthePacific
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
🇻🇪 Terremotos en Venezuela + crisis humanitaria: las mujeres y las niñas absorben el peor impacto. En este artículo, Masaya Llavaneras Blanco analiza por qué las crisis no son neutrales al género (alza de VBG, crisis materna, omisión de DSSR, entre otros). 🔗 Lee el texto completo: bit.ly/4bAektI
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Transforming the global agenda requires more than demanding rights 🏛️ Watch Zenebework Tadesse recall the '90s UN conferences, where DAWN insisted on transforming power institutions for real change. Yet, pushbacks proved our resistance must be continuous. 🔗 dawnfeminist.org/40-years-ima... #DAWN40
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Resistance from the global South is a collective construction 🧶 As our strength rests in the activists & alumni of this tide, we launch #DAWNmoments! Did our texts support your activism? Have a DTI memory? Join in and get ready to share your DAWN story! 🔗 dawnfeminist.org/40-years-ima... #DAWN40
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
True feminist longevity requires adaptation 🔄 Watch Peggy Antrobus recall our early challenges: dividing tasks into rigid boxes "made absolutely no sense." By 1990, we understood our work is interconnected. Learn our path for structuring a global tide 👇🏾 🔗 dawnfeminist.org/40-years-ima... #DAWN40
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How do we structure social movements without power becoming concentrated in a single place? 🌊✊🏾 Formalising our network in Rio de Janeiro in 1986 was the first step. But to guarantee that our agenda fully reflected the immense diversity of the global South, DAWN made a pioneering decision: 1/5 🧵
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Who needs a larger share of a poisoned pie?" 🥧 Watch our co-founder recall the critical questioning that took place 40 years ago for our network to be born. Explore our Interactive Timeline to dig into our history 👇🏾 🔗 dawnfeminist.org/40-years-imagining… #DAWN40
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Transnational organising without email 📠 In 1985, relying on the unwavering will of global South women, calls & faxes, we articulated a critical analysis. After Bergen, our first book was drafted in 3 weeks, paving the way for Nairobi. 🔗 Get to know more: dawnfeminist.org/40-years-ima... #DAWN40
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Demanding equality in an unjust system was never enough 🌍✊🏾 Watch Gita Sen explain how in 1985, DAWN challenged liberal feminism. We knew inclusion meant nothing without addressing the political economy. 🔗 Dig into our roots: dawnfeminist.org/40-years-imagining… #DAWN40
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What does it mean to look back to build the future? 👀✨ We've launched DAWN's Interactive Timeline: 40 Years Imagining Feminist Alternatives! A space where global South justice milestones intertwine with our journey. #GlobalSouth #WomensRights #DecolonialFeminism
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
40 years imagining feminist alternatives ✊🏾 Since 1984, we have challenged Northern development orthodoxy, building alternatives through Global South solidarity. Join our historical retrospective to explore how global justice milestones intertwine with our journey! Stay tuned 🔜 📢 #DAWN40 #Feminism
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
¡Está pasando AHORA en #IAFFE2026! 🇨🇴 La economía mundial está en un punto de quiebre. Súmate al panel principal de DAWN: "MACROECONOMÍA EN TURBULENCIA: Perspectiva feminista desde el Sur Global". 📍 Salón 108D, Univ. ICESI, Cali ⏰ 3:25 PM (COT) 👇 Conoce a quienes desafían la arquitectura global
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Happening NOW at #IAFFE2026! 🇨🇴 The global economy is at a breaking point. Join DAWN’s main panel: "MACROECONOMICS IN TURMOIL: Feminist Perspective from the Global South". 📍 Room 108D, ICESI University, Cali ⏰ 3:25 PM (COT) Meet our speakers challenging the global architecture �
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
¿Estás en Cali para la Conferencia Anual #IAFFE2026? 🇨🇴 DAWN está presente llevando la economía feminista del Sur Global a cada debate. Tras un gran Día 1 de articulación regional, ahora nos centraremos en diferentes debates macroeconómicos centrales. ¡Sigue nuestro itinerario! 👇
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Are you at #IAFFE2026 in Cali, Colombia? 🇨🇴 DAWN is here bringing Global South feminist economics to every table. After an incredible Day 1 co-organised with allies to build regional tax justice agendas, we are ready for the core macroeconomic debates. Follow our itinerary below! 👇
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What is really happening beneath our oceans? 🤔 To understand the threats, we must map them. DAWN’s new visual learning tool unpacks the realities of hyper-militarisation & corporate extractivism across every ocean layer. 🧵 1/4
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🚨 Bioweapons in the deep sea? Yes. We must expose the military dimensions of ocean research. Naval powers are using marine biodiversity for military innovation, from potent toxins & engineered microbes to scaly-foot snails inspiring military armour. dawnfeminist.org/projects/blu... 🧵 1/3
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
On this International Day, DAWN emphasises sex*al violence is a calculated tool of patriarchal & economic control. As our #CSW70 panel exposed from Sudan to Palestine, survivors aren't passive victims but political actors redefining justice. 📺 Watch youtu.be/SBwT9mXZSuE #EndSexualViolenceInConflict
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Pacific is being carved up for military expansion‼️ We expose how #AUKUS & nuclear submarines escalate rivalry in our second Policy Brief. This "strategic ambiguity" undermines the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty. We demand a total naval disarmament! 🛑✊🏽 📖 Read at www.dawnfeminist.org
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
⚠️ The Metals Company (TMC) bypasses international law & multilateralism, pushing deep-sea mining for US military ‘defence critical minerals’. This violates UNCLOS peaceful use mandate. We stand with Pacific networks demanding the ISA blacklist TMC & enforce a moratorium! 🚫 📖 bit.ly/PeaceUnderSiege1
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
#WorldOceansDay passed, but our oceans remain under siege! ☢️ 🌊 Powerful states seek control from the surface to the abyss. The rush for 'defence critical minerals' turns the deep seabed into a frontier for military competition and extraction. 🧵 1/3
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Feminist researcher and DAWN Executive Committee member Maureen Penjueli joined the State of the Pacific Ocean Convening session on security and militarisation.  Learn more at www.dawnfeminist.org #SOTPOC2026 #PacificOcean #OceanGovernance #OceanJustice #PacificVoices
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
DAWN exposes shifting narratives on deep-sea mining: from ‘green transition’ to geopolitical competition for defence 'critical minerals'. The seabed is humanity's common heritage, not a frontier for militarisation. We demand a TOTAL BAN! ✊🏽🌊 📖 Read: bit.ly/PeaceUnderSiege1 #WorldOceansDay #BanDSM
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🚨 #SinDejarANadieAtrás: DAWN exige un Convenio de la OIT más fuerte para la economía de plataformas. ¡En la #CIT114 no podemos retroceder en derechos laborales! ✊🏽 🔗 www.wiego.org/es/centro-educativo-i… #EconomiaFeminista
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🚨 #NoWorkerLeftBehind: DAWN demands a stronger ILO Convention for Decent Work in the Platform Economy. At #ILC114, don't roll back workers' rights! ✊🏽 🔗 Read it: dawnfeminist.org/library/no-worker-… #FeministEconomy
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"The fact that there is no indigenous word for mining clearly demonstrates how it is a completely alien and unwanted practice.”
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ENVIRONMENT | The ocean is our identity - The Fiji Times
The fact that there is no indigenous word for mining clearly demonstrates how it is a completely alien and unwanted practice.” That stark observation by made indigenous Fijian cultural consultant and academic Simione Sevudredre cuts to the heart of Fiji’s increasingly complex debate over deep-sea mining (DSM). As Mr Sevudredre rightly pointed out, the ocean […]
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
📱💸 Promesas que ocultan profundas desigualdades. En su nuevo artículo, Flora Partenio analiza cómo las #plataformasdigitales reproducen precariedad, deuda y sobrecarga de cuidados, afectando especialmente a mujeres y poblaciones racializadas del Sur Global. Léelo en 👉 bit.ly/ArticuloDAWN...
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
📱💸 As promessas da economia digital escondem profundas desigualdades. Flora Partenio analisa como as #plataformasdigitais reproduzem precariedade, dívida e sobrecarga de cuidados, afetando especialmente mulheres e populações racializadas do Sul Global. 👉 bit.ly/ArticuloDAWN... #EconomiaFeminista
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
At our #CSW70 Forum Panel, Yemeni researcher Bilqees Al-Abdali called to invest in the "women's resilience economy" and ensure sustainable access to resources as pathways to political and legal power. End impunity. Build protection systems that serve those who sustain society. 📺 youtu.be/SBwT9mXZSuE
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Reed Gregory @reedgregory.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy #DeepDay. We're reminded the ocean's depths aren't empty resources. They're living ecosystems we barely understand and can't afford to destroy. Could you please repost this video to celebrate #DeepDay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SobT...
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Celebrate Deep Day 2025
YouTube video by Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🌊 Today is #DeepDay! The deep sea is vital to climate balance, yet deep-sea mining threatens irreversible destruction. DAWN stands with Pacific networks, Indigenous peoples, and local communities calling for a total ban on Deep Sea Mining. Only by this can we #DefendTheDeep
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Women living under daily violence must be heard 📢 Justice demands accountability. At our #CSW70 parallel event, Fahima Hashim exposed surveillance, the weaponisation of sexual violence, and highlighted feminist “hubs” sustaining care where the state has failed. 📺 youtu.be/SBwT9mXZSuE
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🌏✊ DAWN co-founder and executive committee member Gita Sen is speaking at the Women Deliver Conference 2026 held in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia, from April 27 to 30. 📆 Check her schedule and learn more at www.womendeliver.org  #WD2026
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
When formal justice fails, how do women define meaningful justice? ✊🏾 At our #CSW70 NGO Forum Panel, activist researcher & filmmaker Sarala Emmanuel traced the feminist history of resistance in Sri Lanka, reminding us that movement spaces must be sustained with care and love. 📺 youtu.be/SBwT9mXZSuE
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“Justice is about changing the conditions that turn motherhood into a daily struggle against death.” 🕊️ Nour Bader reframes justice in Gaza on our #CSW70 parallel event: motherhood as a political practice of sustaining life, demanding material conditions and accountability. 📺 youtu.be/SBwT9mXZSuE
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DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🔴 WE ARE LIVE | Watch now at CPD59 Technology, equity and SRHR: Global South pathways to sustainable development Co-hosted by South Africa, Brazil, Canada, PMNCH, UNFPA, and the Global South Coalition for SRHR and Development Justice 📺 Watch it live!
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Technology, Equity and SRHR: Global South Pathways to Sustainable Development (CPD59 Side Event)
The panel will bring together Member States, regional institutions, the United Nations, and civil society to explore how population dynamics, technology, and research can advance equitable and sustainable development outcomes, in line with the ICPD Programme of Action and the 2030 Agenda.
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