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Briefing paper

Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat: Climate and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa

17/07/2025

4 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Middle East and North Africa is one of the regions that will be affected the most by climate change, extreme weather events, exacerbating the chronic water scarcity that it suffers from and current dependency on fossil fuels. Climate change impacts are already witnessed in many countries, especially those experiencing conflicts. At the same time […]

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Briefing paper

Africa’s Inequality Crisis and the Rise of the Super-Rich

10/07/2025

4 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

Africa is facing a double inequality crisis: extreme inequality alongside weak commitment among its governments to fight it. But there is hope. The African Union has urged member states to reduce inequality by 15% in the coming decade and has identified progressive taxation as a key tool to do so. The challenge, though, is the […]

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Journal article

A flurry of feminist knowledge production in the SWANA region and the emergence of a robust young intersectional movement

12/12/2023

15 pages long

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A flurry of feminist knowledge production in the SWANA region and the emergence of a robust young intersectional movement

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This article is based on a collaboratively built dataset of locally sourced and produced feminist knowledge, and offers valuable insights into feminist knowledge production in the SWANA region while promoting solidarity and community building. The recommendations aim to address gaps and further enhance the breadth and depth of knowledge production in the region. This dataset is […]

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Case study

Sahrawi Livelihoods in Algeria: Building self-sufficiency

13/09/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Over 40 years ago, Oxfam began working with Sahrawi refugees living in extremely harsh conditions in camps in the Saharan desert of western Algeria, who had fled their homes as a result of ongoing disputes over territory in Western Sahara. Since then, the Sahrawi refugees have been largely dependent on humanitarian aid from a number […]

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Issue briefing

Women, Peace and Security in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Factsheet

17/02/2016

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Political upheaval, instability and conflict have been on the rise in the Middle East and North Africa following the uprisings that swept the region in 2011. Women and girls face particular challenges to their basic human rights. This factsheet gives an overview of the status of women in the region, focusing on two key themes: […]

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Briefing paper

40 Years of Exile: Have the Sahrawi refugees been abandoned by the international community?

28/04/2015

6 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Forty years after the Sahrawi refugee crisis began the social pressures on the men and women who live in these camps and the problems concerning their humanitarian situation are becoming ever more unbearable. Today, their voices must be heard. Oxfam has worked with Sahrawi refugees since the 1970s. Based on this experience, this report gives […]

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Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

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Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

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Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

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Journal article

Algerian women and political choice a time of transition

01/10/1995

6 pages long

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Algerian women and political choice a time of transition

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Currently, Algerian women are facing a major crisis. In a complex and changing political environment, the status of women is at stake, threatened by conservative forces associated with Islam, which are likely to win in Algeria’s forthcoming multi-party elections. How are women involving themselves in politics to determine the course of the election. This article […]

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Book

Societies in Transition

01/01/1995

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

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Civil society

Overview

In this book, the theme of transition is treated in an innovative and holistic way to include not only the changeover to democracy and free-market economics in former Eastern-bloc countries, but other forms of major social and personal transformation, such as change resulting from armed conflict, and the process of ageing. The emphasis is on […]

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Journal article

Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

01/02/1994

4 pages long

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Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

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A conference by ‘One World Action’ that focused on Saharawi women refugees, has highlighted how women worldwide cope with displacement. The true picture is starkly different to that portrayed by Western media and understood by Western aid agencies. Women refugees are not ‘victims’ but empower themselves by running the camps and assuming traditional male roles […]

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