United Kingdom Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

How to Talk about Care in the UK: A framing toolkit

30/05/2023

6 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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Across the UK, many people providing paid and unpaid care – including parents and guardians of children, paid care workers, and unpaid carers – experience poverty, and great physical and emotional pressures. This is because the care they provide remains largely taken for granted and is not properly supported by governments and wider society. In […]

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Journal article

Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project

31/08/2022

17 pages long

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Better stories for a gender equal and fairer social recovery from outbreaks: learnings from the RESISTIRÉ project

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The pandemic has radically shifted how society is organised, with increased work from home, home-schooling, and intensification of online presence, all with specific (un)intended implications on paid and unpaid care work. These implications, like those of other crises, are gendered and manifest along sex, age, disability, ethnicity/race, migration status, religion, social class, and the intersections […]

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Briefing note

Feminist Scorecard 2022: Tracking Welsh Government action to advance women’s rights and gender equality

15/07/2022

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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This scorecard tracks the Welsh government’s progress towards advancing women’s rights and gender equality between 2020 and 2022 in six policy areas: Fair Finance, Caring Responsibilities, Global Women’s Rights, Equal Representation and Leadership, Tackling Gender Health Inequalities, and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. The scorecard examines the official statements, legislation, policies and practice for each policy area […]

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Research report

Behind the Barcodes 2022 Supermarket Scorecard and Data

05/04/2022

8 documents

Languages: English

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This is the 2022 update to the Supermarket Scorecard, part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign that Oxfam launched in 2018 to expose the economic exploitation faced by millions of small-scale farmers and workers in food supply chains, and mobilize the power of people around the world to help end it. The Supermarket Scorecard assesses […]

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Research report

Behind the Barcodes Scorecard Data 2018-2022

05/04/2022

4 documents

Languages: English

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The Supermarket Scorecard assesses supermarkets’ policies and practices on human rights in their supply chains. We analysed whether supermarkets are transparent and accountable in the ways they ensure that workers’ rights are respected, small-scale farmers are prosperous and the women who produce our food are treated fairly. These are the four pillars of the Scorecard. […]

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Briefing paper

A People’s Vaccine For Refugees: Ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and other displaced people

30/11/2021

3 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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As we continue to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital that no one is excluded from vaccine coverage. This briefing note addresses some of the challenges faced by displaced people – including refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs, stateless people, and others in displacement contexts – in accessing COVID-19 vaccinations. It identifies a range of […]

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Research report

Working in Marks and Spencer’s Food and Footwear Supply Chains

14/01/2021

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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M&S asked Oxfam to identify human rights and worker wellbeing issues in their supply chains as part of a collaborative research project. Oxfam interviewed 390 workers across food manufacturing sites in the UK and footwear factories in India over a six-month period. The investigation focused on gender equality, worker voice and in-work poverty. The research […]

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Book

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 2

21/10/2020

3 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Deeply held 'truths' are coming undone at the seams. As movements across the globe are challenging 'normal', more and more people are looking for new narratives. Narratives are a form a power, made up of many, many, stories, not always written, made up of online content, offline conversations. They are not something that happens over there, they […]

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Briefing paper

Make Care Count: Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work Across Britain

28/04/2020

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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This report focuses on the link between undervalued care work and poverty in Britain by putting the voices and lived experiences of those who do care work at the forefront. Care work, both paid and unpaid, is a vital social good and an essential human right. Despite its necessity and contribution, in Britain and globally, […]

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