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Journal article

Towards an intersectional praxis in international development: what can the sector learn from Black feminists located in the global North?

18/03/2020

19 pages long

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Towards an intersectional praxis in international development: what can the sector learn from Black feminists located in the global North?

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This article is based on knowledge gained through more than two decades of established ways of working by Imkaan, a Black feminist ending-violence against women and girls organisation based in London. At the time of writing, both authors were employed at Imkaan. Imkaan’s work and existence is clearly grounded in ‘those who came before us’: […]

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Discussion paper

Finding Britain’s Role in a Changing World: Building a values-based foreign policy

03/03/2020

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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The United Kingdom is preparing for its post-Brexit place in the world at a time when the principles of liberal democracy and the rules-based world order are being challenged. In a fast-changing world with new powers rising, old institutions struggling and future challenges emerging, a strong values-based foreign policy is essential. This calls for bold, […]

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Research report

The Welsh Doughnut 2020: A framework for environmental sustainability and social justice

01/03/2020

2 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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The world faces twin challenges: delivering a decent standard of living for everyone, while living within our environmental limits. These two interwoven concerns are captured in Oxfam’s Doughnut model that offers a framework to create a safe and just space for humanity to exist. At the national level, the Welsh Doughnut model suggests areas of […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

How to Analyse Change Processes

18/09/2019

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Stories of change are crucial in informing our work as activists. Yet often they are too simplistic, Robin Hood-style morality tales that exclude the messiness and accident of real life. Alternatively, they are too complex, full of caveats and impenetrable language, making it hard to read or digest lessons from them. This research guideline suggests […]

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Media briefing

The G7’s Deadly Sins: How the G7 is fuelling the inequality crisis

22/08/2019

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French

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President Macron has promised to make the fight against inequality a priority at this year’s G7 Summit in France. G7 leaders regularly pay lip service to the dangers of extreme inequality, yet they are actively fuelling inequality at home and across the globe. In this briefing, Oxfam sets out the seven key issues the G7 […]

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Education resource

Decent Work for Women: Educational resources for 14-19 years

27/06/2019

10 documents

77 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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Gender, Decent work, Women, Gender inequality, Inequality, Unpaid care, Gender pay gap, Welsh Baccalaureate, Global Citizenship Challenge

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The Decent Work for Women education resources explore the inequalities faced by women in work globally and in Wales, following a learn-think-act approach to creating change. This resource also supports the Global Citizenship component of the Welsh Baccalaureate Skills Challenge Certificate KS4 National/Foundation. Learners will use statistics, an infographic based on research in Wales, undertaken […]

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Briefing note

The Role of the UK in Tackling Global Inequality: Contributions to achieving SDG 10

26/06/2019

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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This year, the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is assessing global efforts in achieving Goal 10 (reducing inequality) and the UK government is reviewing its progress towards the SDGs. While the UK government has adopted some policies that can contribute to achieving Goal 10 globally, it is failing to prioritize the actions needed […]

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Briefing note

Feminist Scorecard 2019: Tracking Welsh government action to advance women’s rights and gender equality

13/04/2019

3 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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The barriers that women face, and the opportunities they lack, stem from complex and long-entrenched systems of inequality and discrimination. The Welsh government has made some strides to becoming a feminist government and a feminist nation. But despite robust legislation and good intentions to advance gender equality, there has often been a lack of funding, […]

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Briefing note

Not Enough Substance? Assessing changes made by UK-linked tax havens to fulfil EU requirements

02/04/2019

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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New EU requirements to combat tax avoidance – as part of a tax haven blacklist process started in 2017 – may change how multinational companies use tax havens, but not necessarily lead to a significant drop in global tax avoidance. Oxfam research revealed in Off the Hook: How the EU is about to whitewash the […]

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Journal article

Reading girls’ participation in Girl Up as feminist: club members’ activism in the UK, USA and Malawi

14/11/2018

16 pages long

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Reading girls’ participation in Girl Up as feminist: club members’ activism in the UK, USA and Malawi

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The United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign has been criticised by many feminists for perpetuating patronising discourses that see girls and women in the Global North as the saviours of their counterparts in the South, while doing little to challenge underlying global inequalities. This article draws on focus group data with Girl Up club members […]

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