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Guidelines and toolkits

Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis Toolkit

29/10/2024

3 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

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A Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis toolkit (PS RCA) is a rapid process for businesses and workers to understand the heavy responsibility and long hours of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW), usually done by women workers. The guide also makes the case for why private sector companies should address UCDW as part of workers’ […]

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Briefing paper

Carbon Inequality Kills: Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all

28/10/2024

5 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect people and the planet. What little carbon dioxide we can still safely emit is being burned indiscriminately […]

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Research report

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2024

21/10/2024

4 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

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Now in its fifth edition, the Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRI) assesses the commitment of 164 countries and regions to fighting inequality. The CRI 2024 offers powerful new evidence on whether governments are acting to reduce inequality through policies on public services, fair taxation and labour rights. It reveals negative trends in the vast […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Unchecked: How much does the World Bank know about the climate actions it claims?

17/10/2024

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam finds that for World Bank projects, many things can change during implementation. On average, actual expenditures on the Bank’s projects differ from budgeted amounts by 26–43% above or below the claimed climate finance. Across the entire climate finance portfolio, between 2017 and 2023, this difference amounts to US$24.28–US$41.32 billion. No information is available about […]

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Briefing paper

Food Wars: Conflict, Hunger, and Globalization, 2023

16/10/2024

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Most wars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have been “food wars”: food and hunger were used as weapons, food and food-related water and energy infrastructure were damaged intentionally or incidentally, and food insecurity persisted as a legacy of conflict destructiveness. Frequently, food insecurity, in turn, is a trigger or underlying cause of […]

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Discussion paper

Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding the impact of the tech industry on economic inequality

09/10/2024

1 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English

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Digital technologies have the potential to either ameliorate or worsen the dynamics underlying poverty and inequality, depending on how those technologies are designed, developed, deployed, and used, as well as on the degree to which the businesses, and business models behind them, respect the rights of users and workers. This paper recommends changes in corporate […]

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Campaign report

Vetoing Humanity: How a few powerful nations hijacked global peace and why reform is needed at the UN Security Council

19/09/2024

8 documents

41 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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This report aims to highlight the humanitarian consequences of the dysfunction at the UN Security Council and humanitarian finance mechanisms. A few powerful states are obstructing peace processes and undermining international laws which should be equally binding for all people. There are 23 protracted crises examined in this report, with case studies on the Democratic […]

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Journal article

Gendered Urban Cycling and the Ethics of Caring: Coming to voice in the streets of Tijuana and Oaxaca amidst the patriarcarro

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Gendered Urban Cycling and the Ethics of Caring: Coming to voice in the streets of Tijuana and Oaxaca amidst the patriarcarro

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This article explores grassroots organisations and collectives of women cyclists in the cities of Tijuana and Oaxaca, Mexico. Taking a narrative approach, it delves into the idea of public space that emerges from their life histories, chronicles, and talk groups. It contends that the narratives of their urban practices and interventions, and of their lives […]

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Journal article

Imagining Black Feminist Geographies of Johannesburg Through Senzeni Marasela’s Creative (Un/Re)mapping of Johannesburg’s Mine Slopes

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Imagining Black Feminist Geographies of Johannesburg Through Senzeni Marasela’s Creative (Un/Re)mapping of Johannesburg’s Mine Slopes

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Part of the project of philosophy is to problematise how the world is known, including destabilising geography as one of the dominant imperialist discourses. In the Afropolis, legacies of colonialism and Apartheid still work to uphold spatial inequality within urban spaces in ways that are both racialised and gendered. Black feminist scholar, Katherine McKittrick, provides […]

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Journal article

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

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While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the […]

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