Italy Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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Femonationalism and anti-gender backlash: the instrumental use of gender equality in the nationalist discourse of the Fratelli d’Italia party

01/12/2021

20 pages long

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Femonationalism and anti-gender backlash: the instrumental use of gender equality in the nationalist discourse of the Fratelli d’Italia party

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In the context of the current escalation of anti-gender backlash, this article analyses the instrumental use of gender equality by nationalist forces and unpacks the ways in which the latter dynamic threatens feminist politics and gender justice. I study the intersection of gender and sexuality issues with the co-option of selected aspects of the feminist […]

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Research report

The Workers Behind Sweden’s Italian Wine: An illustrative Human Rights Impact Assessment of Systembolaget’s Italian wine supply chains

15/09/2021

2 documents

118 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reports on an illustrative human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the Italian wine supply chains of Systembolaget, the Swedish monopoly alcohol retailer. The HRIA aimed to evaluate the actual and potential human rights impacts at the production stage of the value chain in Italy, to identify their root causes, and to provide recommendations […]

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Journal article

Violence against women in Italy after Beijing 1995: the relationship between women’s movement(s), feminist practices and state policies

24/06/2020

15 pages long

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Violence against women in Italy after Beijing 1995: the relationship between women’s movement(s), feminist practices and state policies

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Italy, as well as other United Nations Member States, took up the global call to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAW) embraced in the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Through this contribution, we aim to explore the tensions and synergies between the agendas of local women’s rights movement(s) and […]

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Briefing note

Workers’ Rights in Supermarket Supply Chains: New evidence on the need for action

10/10/2019

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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This Oxfam briefing note presents compelling new evidence that our food supply chains are rife with violations of Human, Labour and Women’s Rights. The paper summarises new research commissioned for Oxfam, which shows the depth and scale of human suffering in food production in India and Brazil linked to international supermarket supply chains. The briefing […]

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Media briefing

The G7’s Deadly Sins: How the G7 is fuelling the inequality crisis

22/08/2019

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French

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President Macron has promised to make the fight against inequality a priority at this year’s G7 Summit in France. G7 leaders regularly pay lip service to the dangers of extreme inequality, yet they are actively fuelling inequality at home and across the globe. In this briefing, Oxfam sets out the seven key issues the G7 […]

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Journal article

Albanian women’s experiences of migration to Greece and Italy: a gender analysis

28/03/2019

17 pages long

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Albanian women’s experiences of migration to Greece and Italy: a gender analysis

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This article focuses on the experiences of Albanian women migrating to Italy and Greece, exploring their reasons for migration, their experiences abroad, and the manifestation of their entrepreneurial spirit upon return to Albania. The article also examines how migration can challenge and transform but also reinforce gender equalities; it might lead to new opportunities and […]

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Research report

The People Behind the Prices: A Focused Human Rights Impact Assessment of SOK Corporation’s Italian Processed Tomato Supply Chains

06/02/2019

2 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English

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This focused Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) of SOK Corporation's Italian processed tomato supply chains is a pilot for the company's new approach to assessing human rights impacts in high risk supply chains that goes ‘beyond audits’. The assessment took place over six months, and consisted of five phases of analysis in a methodology aligned […]

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Discussion paper

Walking the Talk: Assessing companies’ progress from SDG rhetoric to action

24/09/2018

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Three years after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reliable information on how companies are working to contribute to the SDGs remains sparse. This paper uses five general themes (prioritization; integration; ambition; human rights and gender equality; and reporting) to review the SDG engagement of 76 of the world’s largest companies. It finds […]

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Research report

Youth Participation for Active Global Citizenship: Future Youth School Forums project report

06/09/2018

1 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English

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The Future Youth School Forums (FYS-Forums) project took place in Cyprus, Italy, Poland, Lithuania and the UK from 2015 to 2018 and was funded by EU Erasmus+. Its aim was to show how creating a group of engaged young global participants requires the engagement of teachers in activities to promote global citizenship – and to […]

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Case study

‘The Lawyers Have Given Us Hope Again’: Legal aid for protection in Europe

10/07/2018

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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The migratory movement towards Europe through Spain, Italy and Greece is an old phenomenon, with peaks at times of conflict. But the summer of 2015 saw an exponential increase in arrivals, as people transited through Libya to Italy, through Turkey to reach Greece, and from there through the Balkans to continue their quest for safety. […]

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