Sweden Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster

29/10/2025

10 documents

73 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Ahead of the major international climate conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, new Oxfam research finds that the high-carbon lifestyles of the super-rich are blowing through the world’s remaining carbon budget - the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while avoiding climate disaster. The research also details how billionaires are using their political and economic influence to keep […]

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Climate Finance Shadow Report 2025: Analysing progress on climate finance under the Paris Agreement

06/10/2025

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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The Climate Finance Shadow Report presents analysis of North-South climate finance flows and assessing progress towards the $100 billion commitment to inform climate finance under the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). Oxfam reported on the progress of this commitment in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and 2023. This year’s report, which is co-published by Oxfam and […]

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Research report

Essential but Invisible and Exploited: A literature review of migrant workers’ experiences in European agriculture

05/06/2024

4 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This report – derived from work implemented by Oxfam Intermón and the University Institute for Studies on Migration (IUEM) of Comillas University in the EU SafeHabitus project – is based on a review of academic and non-academic literature from the past five years. It assesses research on working, living, health and transport conditions for migrants working […]

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Research report

Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

17/03/2023

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Between 2017 and 2022, Oxfam examined aid to DRM from multiple donors provided to multiple low- and middle-income countries. This synthesis report seeks to draw lessons across these studies. The key issues examined include tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness in generating revenues on the one hand, and equity on the other; whether donors support direct […]

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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 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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Research report

Tracing Swedish Development Flows: A study of the traceability of Swedish aid to Tanzania

31/07/2018

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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This report uses 2013–2015 International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data to trace Swedish aid to Tanzania to its end use. It finds that general budget support (GBS) accounted for much of Swedish aid in 2013 and 2015, but could not determine final expenditures using IATI data. In the absence of GBS, the authors could only […]

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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Safe havens needed for refugees from Syria

16/12/2016

5 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam’s research shows that less than three percent of the Syrian refugee population have actually arrived in rich countries through resettlement programmes. By analysing resettlement policies and practices in eight key countries, looking at capacity (i.e. investment in staff and facilities), security procedures, resettlement criteria and the general political climate towards refugees, this paper shows […]

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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

Crossing borders and building bridges: the Baltic Region Networking Project

01/03/2002

10 pages long

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Crossing borders and building bridges: the Baltic Region Networking Project

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16 year old Lithuanian girl found dead on a highway outside Malmö in Southern Sweden.’ She committed suicide after escaping from an apartment where she earned her living selling sexual services. ‘Czech girls kept as sex slaves at a hotel outside Stockholm calling their mothers for help.’ Headlines like this concerning the trafficking of women […]

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