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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Journal article

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

09/11/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the right of consent for women and their communities in respect of extractives and large-scale (or ‘mega’) infrastructure projects that affect their access to, and control over, land and natural resources indispensable to their lives and livelihoods. As we point out, the right of consent is determined by prevailing deeply unequal […]

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Journal article

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

Keywords

Overview

Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

Journal article

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

23/03/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

Keywords

Overview

In the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, as part of their efforts to rebuild the national economy, many donor agencies and non-government organisations increased their efforts to support the goal of women’s economic empowerment. However, the share of women-owned businesses in Lebanon has remained low, and women are mostly still limited to work in […]

Book

Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

26/10/2000

1 documents

386 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing […]

Journal article

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

01/11/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how African women have embraced the blogging phenomenon, and how blogs can be used to promote women’s equality and empowerment. One of the reasons frequently cited for a lack of interest by African women in information and communications technologies (ICTs) is the lack of content available that is relevant to their needs. […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Journal article

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

09/11/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the right of consent for women and their communities in respect of extractives and large-scale (or ‘mega’) infrastructure projects that affect their access to, and control over, land and natural resources indispensable to their lives and livelihoods. As we point out, the right of consent is determined by prevailing deeply unequal […]

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Journal article

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

Keywords

Overview

Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

Journal article

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

23/03/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

Keywords

Overview

In the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, as part of their efforts to rebuild the national economy, many donor agencies and non-government organisations increased their efforts to support the goal of women’s economic empowerment. However, the share of women-owned businesses in Lebanon has remained low, and women are mostly still limited to work in […]

Book

Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

26/10/2000

1 documents

386 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing […]

Journal article

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

01/11/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how African women have embraced the blogging phenomenon, and how blogs can be used to promote women’s equality and empowerment. One of the reasons frequently cited for a lack of interest by African women in information and communications technologies (ICTs) is the lack of content available that is relevant to their needs. […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Journal article

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

09/11/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Extractives vs development sovereignty: building living consent rights for African women

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the right of consent for women and their communities in respect of extractives and large-scale (or ‘mega’) infrastructure projects that affect their access to, and control over, land and natural resources indispensable to their lives and livelihoods. As we point out, the right of consent is determined by prevailing deeply unequal […]

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Journal article

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

Keywords

Overview

Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

Journal article

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

23/03/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s entrepreneurship development initiatives in Lebanon: micro-achievements and macro-gaps

Keywords

Overview

In the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, as part of their efforts to rebuild the national economy, many donor agencies and non-government organisations increased their efforts to support the goal of women’s economic empowerment. However, the share of women-owned businesses in Lebanon has remained low, and women are mostly still limited to work in […]

Book

Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

26/10/2000

1 documents

386 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing […]

Journal article

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

01/11/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Telling our own stories’: African women blogging for social change

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how African women have embraced the blogging phenomenon, and how blogs can be used to promote women’s equality and empowerment. One of the reasons frequently cited for a lack of interest by African women in information and communications technologies (ICTs) is the lack of content available that is relevant to their needs. […]