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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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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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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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Research report

Human Rights Impact Assessment of Bolton Food’s Canned Tuna Operations in Morocco

22/06/2025

2 documents

114 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reports on the second human rights impact assessment (HRIA) carried out by Oxfam at Nouvelle Cosarno, Bolton Food’s tuna cannery in the coastal city of Agadir, Morocco. The factory employs more than 400 workers, 90% of whom are performing manual tasks (blue-collar workers). Women make up the majority of the manual workers (71%). […]

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Journal article

She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

08/05/2025

17 pages long

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She Inherits, She Sells: Community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship

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Women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest rates of land ownership and workforce participation despite increased educational attainment. Sociocultural norms are often cited as the cause. Using the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, we conducted action research to address harmful norms around women’s inheritance, mobility, sexual harassment, and control […]

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Journal article

Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

08/05/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

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This is the introduction to the Special Issue on 'Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis'.

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Briefing paper

The Middle East and North Africa Gap: Prosperity for the rich, austerity for the rest

05/10/2023

6 documents

46 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This briefing paper examines growing inequality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focusing on Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis. It examines the lack of adequate and just taxation systems across the region, particularly wealth taxes. This limits governments’ fiscal […]

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Research report

The Workers Behind the Citrus Fruits: A focused Human Rights Impact Assessment of Coop Sweden’s Moroccan citrus fruit supply chains

20/04/2022

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reports on a focused human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of Coop Sweden’s Moroccan citrus supply chains. The HRIA aimed to assess the actual and potential human rights impacts at the production stage of the value chain in Morocco, to identify their root causes, and to provide recommendations to relevant stakeholders concerning their mitigation […]

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Research report

The Magic Potion of Austerity and Poverty Alleviation: Narratives of political capture and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa

22/11/2021

4 documents

46 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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Dominant narratives promoting economic growth at the expense of state institutions and basic social services have long underpinned a neoliberal model of spiralling debt and austerity in the MENA region. This exacerbates political capture and inequality and takes shape in an environment of media concentration and shrinking civic space. It is important for change movements […]

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Case study

Association Amal Al Mansour: Supporting vulnerable youth into work every step of the way

12/08/2021

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Youth Participation and Employment (YPE) project helped Hind, a young woman in Morocco, to enter the labour market. Though she is educated, her skills were insufficient to get a job. The Amal Al Mansour Association, a YPE partner, helped her with practical training in developing soft skills and accessing the formal labour market. With […]

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Case study

Local ‘Job Counters’ at Casal del Infants: Personal support to help vulnerable young people into work

12/08/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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After graduating from university, Warda struggled a lot. For a few years, she had to take odd jobs for that had no security, days off or health insurance. Eventually she connected with Youth Participation and Employment (YPE) programme partner Casal Del Infants. With their support, she successfully entered the formal labour market. She was selected […]

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