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Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

12/02/2025

25 pages long

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Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

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The practice of hosting or families taking in families displaced by conflict or disaster and providing them with shelter has a long history. Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which affected countries both in South-East and South Asia, humanitarian agencies and donors have been intentional in adding hosting to their repertoire of short-term accommodation strategies […]

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

12/02/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

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This is the introduction to the special issue on 'Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises'.

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Pride and the Politics of Activism in South and South-East Asia: A transdisciplinary conversation

19/09/2024

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Pride and the Politics of Activism in South and South-East Asia: A transdisciplinary conversation

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The notion of pride in the context of queer activism and community organising has been questioned by South and South-East Asian scholars and practitioners regarding its Eurocentric genealogies, its emphasis on visibility, and its reliance on capitalist and consumerist practices. This article builds on an online public panel discussion hosted at Heidelberg University on 15 […]

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Issue briefing

Loss and Damage to Land: Voices from Asia

29/06/2023

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam listened to women and men from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste who shared their stories on how the climate crisis caused loss and damage to their lands and impacted their lives. The stories demonstrate that land ownership is a key factor in determining people’s eligibility to receive assistance to overcome loss and damage. […]

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Navigating the digital informal economy during the COVID-19 pandemic: vignettes of Sri Lankan micro- and small-scale entrepreneurs

07/12/2022

19 pages long

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Navigating the digital informal economy during the COVID-19 pandemic: vignettes of Sri Lankan micro- and small-scale entrepreneurs

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Globally, women have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the impact has varied between groups of women, women in the informal sector, mainly those managing micro- and small-scale businesses, have been severely affected. Drawing on the case of urban Sri Lanka, this paper explores the challenges that women owners of micro- and small-scale […]

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Briefing paper

Climate finance in Asia: Assessing the state of climate finance in one of the world’s most climate vulnerable regions

01/11/2022

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate hazards including extreme temperatures, flooding, droughts, cyclones, and sea level rise. The most vulnerable communities need financial support to help adapt to the climate crisis – they cannot do so alone. Developed countries have promised $100 bn in climate finance to developing countries every year until 2025. This promise […]

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Journal article

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

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Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

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Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

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Research report

Securing Land Rights of Displaced and Evicted Communities in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka

23/11/2020

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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Three decades of civil war and subsequent development initiatives in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka have resulted in large-scale displacements and evictions. Communities who lost their lands have demanded the release of their land and security of tenure. However, their demands have been met with challenges such as lack of political will, insufficient legislative and […]

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Media briefing

Forced from Home: Climate-fuelled displacement

02/12/2019

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate-fuelled disasters were the number one driver of internal displacement over the last decade – forcing an estimated 20 million people a year from their homes. While no one is immune, it is overwhelmingly poor countries that are most at risk. Eighty percent of those displaced in the last decade live in Asia, home to […]

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Research report

Smashing Spatial Patriarchy: Shifting gender norms driving sexual and gender-based violence on public transport in Sri Lanka

23/07/2019

2 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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With rising urbanization following a civil war, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) on public transport has become increasingly relevant in Sri Lanka, as women, girls and transgender and gender non-conforming people enter historically masculinized spaces more than before. Despite important legislative and policy advances, sexual harassment on public transport is widely under-reported, and suffers from […]

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