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{{short description|U.S.-based Middle East watchdog non-profit organization}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                     = Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
| formation                = {{start date and age|2020|09|27|df=y}}
| type                     = [[501(c)3 organization]]
| tax_id                   = 82-4378001
| focus                    = Promoting democracy, the rule of law, and human rights in the Arab world
| headquarters             = [[Washington D.C.]], United States
| key_people               = [[Sarah Leah Whitson]] (Executive Director)
| founder                  = [[Jamal Khashoggi]]
| website                  = {{Official URL}}
| footnotes                = 
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'''Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)''' is an American [[non-profit organization]] launched in September 2020 that advocates for [[democracy]] and [[human rights]] in [[the Arab world]].<ref name=Fah20>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/khashoggi-dawn-arab-democracy/2020/09/29/70de57a2-025e-11eb-b92e-029676f9ebec_story.html |title=Khashoggi supporters launch group to advocate for democratic rights in the Arab world |author=Kareem Fahim |date=29 September 2020 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref name=Hub20>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/world/middleeast/jamal-khashoggi-dawn-saudi-arabia.html |title=Saudi Writer's Dream Comes to Life Two Years After His Killing |author=Ben Hubbard |date=28 September 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210411020631/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/world/middleeast/jamal-khashoggi-dawn-saudi-arabia.html|archive-date=2021-04-11|url-status=live}}</ref> DAWN was founded by Saudi journalist [[Jamal Khashoggi]] before [[Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi|his assassination]].

==Leadership, aims and funding==
Director [[Sarah Leah Whitson]] said it was established based on the "belief that only democracy and freedom will bring lasting peace and security to the Middle East and [[North Africa]]."<ref name=Fah20/> Whitson said DAWN would be funded by private individuals and foundations and eschew any government financial assistance – in part, precisely because one aspect of its mission is "to hold Western states accountable" for enabling abuses by authoritarian governments.<ref name="Fah20" />

==Actions==
In October 2022, after conducting its own research,<ref name="DAWN_Eyal_Toledano">{{cite Q|Q125676907|url-status=live}}</ref> DAWN submitted a request to the [[International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine]] to investigate [[Eyal Toledano]], a former legal advisor to the [[Israeli Defense Forces]], alleging that from 2016 to 2020, Toledano "planned approved, or oversaw acts and policies that constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and human rights violations, including ... maintaining a system of apartheid".<ref name="MECGA_apartheid_PS_liberation">{{cite Q|Q125676667|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="MEM_senior_army_officer">{{cite Q|Q125677080|url-status=live}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa]]

==References==
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[[Category:Organizations established in 2020]]
[[Category:Human rights organizations based in the United States]]
[[Category:Democracy promotion]]
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