Colombia Archives - Page 9 of 10 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Research report

The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation: The Situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

05/05/2011

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

This study illustrates the barriers to exercising the right to prior consultation and consent in each of these four countries, and is intended to encourage broad debate.

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Guidelines and toolkits

Programming in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries: Programme policy guidelines

14/04/2011

3 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

There is no single prescriptive approach to working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. The underlying causes of problems and the dynamics of such contexts are too complex and unpredictable for that. There is a great diversity of underlying causes, actors, needs, opportunities, and responses. Staff are faced with immense challenges and work under greater limitations […]

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Briefing note

Sexual Violence in Colombia: First survey of prevalence

09/12/2010

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Spanish

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Gender-based violence

Overview

Sexual violence against women is very common in Colombian municipalities where armed actors are present. It is a crime that remains invisible and unpunished in Colombia. This paper presents the main results of the First Survey into the Prevalence of Sexual Violence against Women in the Context of Armed Conflict in Colombia, covering the period […]

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Briefing paper

Sexual Violence in Colombia: Instrument of war

09/09/2009

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

Sexual violence has been employed as a weapon of war by all of the armed groups involved in the half-century-long Colombian conflict. State military forces, paramilitaries and guerrilla groups have used sexual violence with the goal of terrorizing communities, using women as instruments to achieve their military objectives. But this type of violence also is […]

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Journal article

Transnational peace building: bringing salt and light to Colombia and the USA

01/08/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

In 2003, Lutheran World Relief (LWR), an international relief and development NGO, began a peace-building initiative in Colombia. It facilitated the formation of a partnership between peace-sanctuary churches in Colombia and six communities of faith in the US Midwest, co-ordinated by LWR staff. This partnership, called ‘Sal y Luz’ (Salt and Light), has the goal […]

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Case study

Tackling Corruption: Lessons from Oxfam’s work

01/11/2008

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Corruption drives poverty, powerlessness, and exclusion in societies where having little cash or influence means no access to basic entitlements, public services, justice, or even physical security. But corruption is not an isolated issue. It is part of a set of societal, economic, political, and cultural systems that deny people in poverty access to rights […]

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Journal article

Abortion law reform in Latin America: lessons for advocacy

01/07/2008

14 pages long

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Abortion law reform in Latin America: lessons for advocacy

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Overview

Latin America’s transition to democracy in the 1970s and 1980s was accompanied by the increased political participation of women, who demanded not only equal rights, but also insisted that addressing women’s specific interests was key to establishing a truly representative democracy. Many in the Latin American women’s movement saw the right to safe, legal abortion […]

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Journal article

Non-traditional agricultural export industries: conditions for women workers in Colombia and Peru

01/03/2008

13 pages long

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Non-traditional agricultural export industries: conditions for women workers in Colombia and Peru

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Overview

Women comprise the majority of the workforce in many non-traditional agricultural export (NTAE) industries, which international lending and aid agencies espouse as a development solution for rural poor people. In the Peruvian asparagus industry and the Colombian cut-flower plantations, however, women workers endure unsafe and substandard conditions. Local organisations creatively employ various strategies, ranging from […]

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Book

Building National Campaigns: Activists, alliances, and how change happens

23/11/2007

2 documents

120 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

Poor-quality employment undermines sustainable development and gender equality throughout the world. Yet, the number of people employed in precarious jobs, with unstable income, little access to benefits, and with fewer opportunities to claim their rights, is increasing, with many workers (especially women) remaining trapped in poverty. High-profile campaigning has become an important strategy for civil-society […]

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Journal article

Violence in development: the logic of forced displacement on Colombia

01/11/2007

12 pages long

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Overview

A progressive piece of legislation in 1993 granted collective land rights to Colombia’s black communities living in the rural areas of the Pacific coast region. This measure aimed partly to support sustainable development strategies in the region through territorial empowering of local communities. Yet 14 years later, the escalation of the country’s internal conflict into […]

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