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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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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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Briefing paper

UK Supermarket Supply Chains: Ending the human suffering behind our food

21/06/2018

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Inequality is rampant across the global economy, and the agro-food sector is no exception. At the top, big supermarkets and other corporate food giants dominate global food markets, allowing them to squeeze value from vast supply chains that span the globe, while at the bottom the bargaining power of small-scale farmers and workers has been […]

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Evaluation report

Oxfam Cymru and South Riverside Community Development Centre Skills for Life Project: Final evaluation report

07/06/2018

2 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

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The Skills for Life project was a one-year project focused on supporting predominantly Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women in Cardiff to “build long-term, lasting outcomes [beyond] moving into entry-level work and beyond ‘first jobs’ (whilst recognising their value as stepping stones)”. Skills for Life is a sister project of Future Skills, and run as […]

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Education resource

End Hunger UK Poetry Challenge 2018

12/04/2018

2 documents

Languages: English

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Oxfam is working to beat poverty, wherever we find it, and that includes the UK – the second most food insecure country in Europe. This is an invitation for learners aged 11+ to respond passionately, and poetically, to the scandal that is UK hunger. Use our teaching resources to develop literacy and language skills, and […]

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Research report

Attitudes Towards Inequality in the UK: A review of opinion surveys

14/03/2018

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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As part of Oxfam’s commitment to tackling inequality in order to end extreme poverty, we need to understand how different people feel about inequality. This briefing examines three UK population surveys and notes that there is widespread agreement with statements that promote greater equality. Those on lower incomes tend to be more egalitarian; the impact […]

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Research report

Safe but Not Settled: The impact of family separation on refugees in the UK

31/01/2018

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Refugees in the UK often find themselves separated from their families by their brutal experiences of conflict and persecution, just at the time when they need each other the most. This separation can drag on for years or sometimes indefinitely because of the UK’s restrictive rules on refugee family reunion. This joint report by the […]

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Briefing paper

Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful.

22/01/2018

14 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese

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Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days. This huge increase could have ended global extreme poverty seven times over. 82% of all wealth created in the last year went to the top 1%, and nothing went to the bottom 50%. Dangerous, poorly paid work for the many […]

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