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Briefing paper

Business Among Friends: Why corporate tax dodgers are not yet losing sleep over global tax reform

02/05/2014

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Fair tax regimes are vital to finance well-functioning states and to enable governments to uphold citizens’ rights to basic services, such as healthcare and education. Tax dodging by big corporations deprives governments of billions of dollars and drives rapidly increasing inequality. Recent G20 and OECD moves to clamp down on corporate tax dodging are a […]

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Journal article

From spoils to weapons: framing wartime sexual violence

12/11/2013

12 pages long

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From spoils to weapons: framing wartime sexual violence

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The way an issue is ‘framed’ (viewed and understood) has a profound effect on whether it is viewed as a priority for action by international organisations, states, and civil society. Wartime sexual violence used to be framed as a ‘women’s issue’, but since the issue gained widespread notoriety in the mid-1990s, it has shifted to being understood as a […]

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Research report

Care in households and communities: Background paper on conceptual issues

07/10/2013

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s initiative ‘Innovations in Care’ aims to support development, humanitarian and advocacy practitioners to work more effectively on care issues. Care is understood as a major issue in promoting women’s human rights, empowerment and overcoming poverty and inequality. This paper clarifies the main conceptual issues, overlapping terms and debates relevant for local programming and research […]

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Briefing note

Blind Budgets: Budget transparency and public spending for small-scale producers

23/07/2013

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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In Latin America and the Caribbean, national budgets remain blind to the special needs and priorities of small-scale producers. This undercuts the productivity and food security of millions of women and men who manage small-scale farming operations and provide up to 60 per cent of the food supply. With a new index, Oxfam evaluates budget […]

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Briefing paper

A Quiet Renaissance in American Aid: How US reforms are making America a better partner in the fight against poverty

10/04/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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For too long, United States government development efforts have worked at cross purposes with the very people who are trying to lead lasting change in poor countries. For at least two decades, US assistance has been rightly derided as opaque, supply driven, and not focused on delivering the results that people in poor countries say […]

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Journal article

Sympathetic advocates: male parliamentarians sharing responsibility for gender equality

14/03/2013

14 pages long

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Sympathetic advocates: male parliamentarians sharing responsibility for gender equality

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Gender mainstreaming, as a strategy that aims to achieve gender equality across institutions, does not work without the assistance of men. There has been a strategic shift in emphasis over the past decade from women’s issues to those concerning gender equality. Underpinning this shift is a change in focus from women exclusively, to one on […]

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Journal article

Introduction: Working with men on gender equality

14/03/2013

13 pages long

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Introduction: Working with men on gender equality

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Journal article

Domestic violence prevention through the Constructing Violence-free Masculinities programme: an experience from Peru

14/03/2013

13 pages long

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Domestic violence prevention through the Constructing Violence-free Masculinities programme: an experience from Peru

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This paper examines work undertaken with male perpetrators of violence in the Construction of Violence-free Masculinities, a project run by the Centro Mujer Teresa de Jesu´ s, a Women’s Centre located in a poor peri-urban district of Lima, Peru´, in conjunction with Oxfam-Quebec. Centre staff faced the challenge of how to work with men who […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Ending Violence Against Women: An Oxfam guide

30/11/2012

4 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Violence against women and girls (VAW) is a global epidemic: according to UN estimates, one in three women worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence because she is a woman. Oxfam views VAW as human-rights violation and as a major obstacle to women’s and girls’ development. Through its advocacy and programmes, Oxfam envisions a safe […]

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Journal article

Child protection: a role for conditional cash transfer programmes?

01/06/2012

11 pages long

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Drawing on empirical data from a community-based study with children and adults in rural Peru, the paper analyses the everyday experiences of a conditional cash transfer programme, called ‘Juntos’. The findings show that social protection programmes like Juntos address certain child vulnerabilities by making eligibility for their cash transfers conditional on behaviour-related to child protection-related […]

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