Violence Against Women Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

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Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

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In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

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Briefing paper

Women Defenders of Agricultural, Territorial, and Environmental Rights in Colombia: Risking their lives for peace

02/10/2019

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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In Colombia, the women who defend their land, their culture, and the environment are being threatened, harassed, and sometimes even murdered. Since the Peace Agreement was signed, their territories have become highly desirable property. While defenders try to preserve these territories, armed groups are prepared to kill for them. These women are true peace builders, […]

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Journal article

Balancing fidelity, contextualisation, and innovation: learning from an adaption of SASA! to prevent violence against women in the Dadaab refugee camp

11/07/2019

16 pages long

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Balancing fidelity, contextualisation, and innovation: learning from an adaption of SASA! to prevent violence against women in the Dadaab refugee camp

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This article focuses on SASA!, a community mobilisation approach that was developed in Uganda by Raising Voices, with the aim of preventing violence against women. SASA! proved effective in reducing intimate partner violence against women, and has since been used in over 25 countries worldwide. In this article, we draw on recent research into the […]

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Journal article

Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

11/07/2019

18 pages long

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Women’s status and qualitative perceptions of a cash assistance programme in Raqqa Governorate, Syria

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Cash and voucher assistance is an efficient way to deliver assistance in emergency settings, and evidence demonstrates that cash programmes have consistent positive impacts on food security and other health and economic outcomes in these contexts. Nevertheless, while evidence from development settings shows that cash has the potential to reduce intimate partner violence and increase […]

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Journal article

The reintegration of former combatants in Colombia: addressing violent masculinities

09/11/2016

16 pages long

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The reintegration of former combatants in Colombia: addressing violent masculinities

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This article focuses on peace-building processes in fragile societies traumatised by violence and conflict. It argues that disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) programmes largely overlook the relationship between violent ‘militarised’ male identities and behaviour, and risks to women’s security. DDR programmes need to work with men to support them to evolve non-violent ways of ‘being […]

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Case study

Can a Radio Series Change Attitudes and Norms on Violence Against Women?

28/04/2016

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Edutainment is the combination of entertainment—often television or radio soap operas—with educational messages that aim to mobilise and promote positive changes in attitudes, behaviours and social norms. According to the World Bank’s 2015 Development Report, edutainment has the potential to achieve large-scale behaviour change, and many other studies have noted similarly positive results. However, rigorously-gathered […]

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Journal article

Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: gender equality at last? An Oxfam perspective

04/03/2016

16 pages long

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Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: gender equality at last? An Oxfam perspective

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The formulation of the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have involved greater consultation with civil society than their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals. This has been welcome to many development non-government organisations undertaking advocacy on women’s rights and gender equality, which have engaged with the SDG process in various ways. This article, […]

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Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Uganda: Impact evaluation of the project ‘Piloting gender sensitive livelihoods in Karamoja’

18/12/2015

3 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation carried out in August 2014 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the project ‘Piloting gender sensitive livelihoods in Karamoja’. The […]

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Case study

Active Citizenship of Women and Youth in Nicaragua

30/11/2015

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reviews the construction of intersectional strategies for active citizenship that have contributed to the Active Citizenship Program for Women and Youth (2011-2016) led by Oxfam in Nicaragua. The document seeks to highlight the intersecting forms of violence and subordination that women and youth identities in Nicaragua face in different ways, and underscore how […]

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Journal article

Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

23/11/2015

16 pages long

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Reinvigorating resilience: violence against women, land rights, and the women’s peace movement in Myanmar

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In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain transition. This article draws from the experience of the Gender Equality Network (GEN), a coalition of over 100 organisations in Myanmar. It examines three cases in which GEN sought to […]

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