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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

Overview

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

Free access through journal website

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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Discussion paper

Walking the Talk: Assessing companies’ progress from SDG rhetoric to action

24/09/2018

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Three years after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reliable information on how companies are working to contribute to the SDGs remains sparse. This paper uses five general themes (prioritization; integration; ambition; human rights and gender equality; and reporting) to review the SDG engagement of 76 of the world’s largest companies. It finds […]

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Briefing note

Harmful Side Effects: How drug companies undermine global health

18/09/2018

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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New Oxfam research shows that four pharmaceutical companies – Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer – systematically hide their profits in overseas tax havens. They appear to deprive developing countries of more than $100m (around £80m) every year – money that is urgently needed to meet the health needs of people in these countries […]

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Research report

Youth Participation for Active Global Citizenship: Future Youth School Forums project report

06/09/2018

1 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English

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The Future Youth School Forums (FYS-Forums) project took place in Cyprus, Italy, Poland, Lithuania and the UK from 2015 to 2018 and was funded by EU Erasmus+. Its aim was to show how creating a group of engaged young global participants requires the engagement of teachers in activities to promote global citizenship – and to […]

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