Английская Википедия:Dawn Cavanagh

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Шаблон:Infobox person Шаблон:Use dmy dates Dawn Cavanagh was (born 23 March 1962). She is a South African activist, writer, and feminist.

Early life and education

Dawn Cavanagh was born on March 23, 1962. She attended Fairvale Senior Secondary School in Wentworth, KwaZulu-Natal, and graduated from the University of Natal with a Bachelor of Science degree in social work in 1982. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social work from the University of South Africa in 1996 and studied for a master's degree in development studies from the University of Natal.

Career

Cavanagh is active in South Africa in the fields of equal access to healthcare, HIV/AIDS activism, women's rights, sexual rights, and reproductive rights. She works on social justice projects and development in local communities and in regional and international spaces.Шаблон:Cn

In 2004 She has worked for the Forum for the Empowerment of Women, and Coalition of Africa n Lesbians. The first Black lesbian rights organization in South Africa. She has also worked for Oxfam, as well as at the Civil Rights Defenders, Akina Mama wa Afrika and the Women's Leadership Centre in Namibia.

She helped to found the Coalition of African Lesbians in 2004 and became its director in 2010. In 2014 Cavanagh set up the Masakhane programme (Zulu for "Come, let's get stronger together") with the German LSVD to provide better networking and empowerment to lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women in sub-Saharan Africa.

Cavanagh has also worked with and been promoted by AWID.

Publications

• Losing the Beijing Agenda in the Sea of 'New Solutions' to HIV and AIDS" (2005), in Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity.
• The OTHER REFLECT: Five Years of Building a Community Foundation with LGBTIQ people in Southern Africa External Review (2019) (with Hope Chigudu)