Sonia Corrêa is the founder of SOS-Corpo- Instituto Feminista para a Democracia (Brazil). She is the coordinator for sexual and reproductive health rights of DAWN, Development Alternative with Women for a New Era, a southern-based research and activist network. She is the author of Population and Reproductive Rights: feminist perspectives from the South (1994). Since 1994, she has closely followed United Nations negotiations in relation to gender, sexuality and reproductive health. She is currently a Research Associate at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) and the co-chair of Sexuality Policy Watch, a global initiative created in 2002 as the International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy.