Philippines Archives - Page 15 of 16 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Development in Conflict: The Gender Dimension

01/01/1999

1 documents

106 pages long

Languages: English

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This report arose out of a workshop held in Thailand in February 1993. The participants were drawn from Oxfam (UK and Ireland) staff in Asia and the Middle East, and from the Gender and Development Unit, and from other sister organisations in the region. The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to share experience and […]

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Journal article

Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

01/03/1998

6 pages long

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Frustrated and Displaced’: Filipina domestic workers in Canada

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This article examines the case of Filipina domestic workers in Canada, based on a participatory action research study that the authors carried out with Filipina domestic workers in 1996. The Philippines has been a major supplier of migrant labour, and is one of the principal sources of foreign domestic workers in Canada. This article is […]

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Book

Gender and Migration

01/01/1998

1 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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The articles in this collection explore the vast array of different reasons for women and men moving within and outside their native countries, whether it be for employment, upon marriage, or in the midst of conflict. The authors stress the importance of seeing an individual migrant in her or his context as a member of […]

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Book

The Philippines: In Search of Justice

01/01/1997

4 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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The Philippines is rich in natural resources, which are being rapidly and unsustainably exploited, and the widespread poverty in the country is a consequence of the unequal distribution of these resources. The book describes the strategies of the many fishing communities of the islands, who are struggling to survive as fish-stocks fall as a result […]

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Journal article

Agrarian reform

01/11/1996

9 pages long

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Agrarian reform and land reform have virtually disappeared from the international development agenda since the 1980s. However, many people’s organisations (POs) and NGOs in Third World countries are attempting to restore them as a development priority and policy imperative. The Philippines provides an example of agrarian reform that is currently being implemented within a democratic […]

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Book

Development in States of War: Selected articles from Development in Practice

01/01/1996

2 documents

114 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Humanitarian relief has always focused on meeting the needs of people affected by war and armed conflict. Today, the same is increasingly true of development programmes. The challenge for aid agencies is not only to apply development principles to their emergency work, but also to address the issues arising from the reality of military conflict […]

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Journal article

Susan Cueva talks to Caroline Sweetman about migrant workers

01/10/1995

5 pages long

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Susan Cueva talks to Caroline Sweetman about migrant workers

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Susan Cueva is a member of Lingap (‘to care’), a grassroots organisation of Filipina migrants to the UK. Migration for work, either to a different region or to another country, is a transition faced by increasing numbers of women and men throughout the world. Currently, an estimated 1.5 million Filipina women are migrant workers overseas. […]

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Book

Agricultural Trade and Food Security

01/01/1995

1 documents

111 pages long

Languages: English

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How does a $16,000 subsidy per farmer in the U.S. translate into food insecurity for households in Cagayan Valley? How does a few percentage point rise in grains demand in South Korea drive up meat prices in the wet market of Valencia in Cotabato? This book takes us through the interaction of international trade realities […]

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Journal article

Training indigenous workers in mental-health care

01/05/1994

11 pages long

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This article develops issues raised in Hans Buwalda’s article, ‘Children of war in the Philippines’. It considers the training of indigenous workers in mental-health care in areas of recent or continuing armed conflict. It explores the possibilities of combining Western therapeutic techniques with local and culturally appropriate ways of working. It stresses the need to […]

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Journal article

Children of war in the Philippines

01/02/1994

10 pages long

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Political armed conflict has important ramifications in the lives of children as individuals and on social development more generally. However, the emotional problems faced by children during and after war or political violence are rarely considered in development literature and practice. This article recounts the experience of working with severely traumatised children in the Philippines, […]

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