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Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

01/02/1995

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

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Overview

This article argues that for the human rights movement to become international, it must start by appreciating local and national contexts. The expectations and experiences of Muslim women are hugely diverse, depending on the culture they are born into. ‘Women Living Under Muslin Law’ unites women from different countries to organise for change according to […]

Journal article

Women and Disability Don’t Mix!’: double discrimination and disabled women’s rights

01/06/1995

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and Disability Don’t Mix!’: double discrimination and disabled women’s rights

Keywords

Overview

It is imperative to understand and address gender issues and how they impact upon a person’s experience of disability, in order to develop a strategy for establishing and enforcing the human rights of women and men with disabilities. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for […]

Evaluation report

Report of a Baseline Survey of Women Domestic Workers in Mukuru Informal Settlement – Nairobi Kenya

01/08/2013

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Through this project, Oxfam gained insight into the lives of thousands of women in Mukuru informal settlements who work as casual domestic workers and that these women faced serious livelihood challenges which include low and delayed pay, poor working conditions and sexual exploitation as well as physical and psychological abuse. Despite these challenges, they continue […]

Journal article

Leveraging blockchain technology in humanitarian settings – opportunities and risks for women and girls

11/07/2019

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leveraging blockchain technology in humanitarian settings – opportunities and risks for women and girls

Keywords

Overview

There is an increasing acknowledgement among policymakers and private-sector partners that we cannot overcome the challenges of our time without harnessing the potential of emerging technologies. As blockchain technology is rapidly being introduced to support work across a wide number of areas of humanitarian action, this article considers its potential impact on women and girls. […]

Research report

Breaking a Culture of Silence: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls in Nigeria

28/02/2018

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women and girls is often perpetuated by practices defended by some community members on the basis of tradition, culture, religion or superstition. These include female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and early marriage. Such harmful traditional practices are underpinned by social norms, the rules of behaviour that people in a group adhere to because they […]

Case study

Building Gender Sensitive Resilience Through Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons learned from pastoralist women in Ethiopia

30/11/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In addition to ethnicity, age, or disability, gender in the Somali region of Ethiopia strongly intersects with pastoralism, a predominant livelihood in East Africa and the Horn. This paper explores how the overlap of a double marginalized identity produces particular disadvantages for pastoralist women in Ethiopia, and how an Oxfam intervention in the Somali region […]

Journal article

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

31/08/2022

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

Pacific women’s unique economic experiences are under-represented in Pacific development initiatives. Economic empowerment initiatives typically focus on economic participation, without consideration for women’s household labour and the unequal social and economic dynamics within their homes and communities. Within the context of COVID-19, these inequalities have become more pronounced and the need to address them more […]

Research report

Intersecting Injustices: The links between social norms, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and violence against women and girls

12/11/2020

2 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the Philippines, poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of women and girls is a grave public health challenge: one in five girls is a mother by age 19, two-thirds of women are not using any form of birth control, and more than a third of women’s pregnancies are unwanted. This study provides insights into […]

Journal article

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

In August 2005, a campaign was initiated in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, to obtain government land for landless families. Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), a grassroots collective of rural women, supported women’s land and property rights in the context of the campaign. In this article, we assess the impact of this campaign on women in […]

Journal article

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

20/07/2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women in El Salvador – a country made fragile by a vicious Civil War and the subsequent burgeoning of murderous youth gangs – has been described as lying on the knife’s edge between public and private (Hume 2009). Women’s experiences of violence are often invalidated by wider society for violating a normalised culture […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

01/02/1995

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that for the human rights movement to become international, it must start by appreciating local and national contexts. The expectations and experiences of Muslim women are hugely diverse, depending on the culture they are born into. ‘Women Living Under Muslin Law’ unites women from different countries to organise for change according to […]

Journal article

Women and Disability Don’t Mix!’: double discrimination and disabled women’s rights

01/06/1995

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and Disability Don’t Mix!’: double discrimination and disabled women’s rights

Keywords

Overview

It is imperative to understand and address gender issues and how they impact upon a person’s experience of disability, in order to develop a strategy for establishing and enforcing the human rights of women and men with disabilities. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for […]

Evaluation report

Report of a Baseline Survey of Women Domestic Workers in Mukuru Informal Settlement – Nairobi Kenya

01/08/2013

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Through this project, Oxfam gained insight into the lives of thousands of women in Mukuru informal settlements who work as casual domestic workers and that these women faced serious livelihood challenges which include low and delayed pay, poor working conditions and sexual exploitation as well as physical and psychological abuse. Despite these challenges, they continue […]

Journal article

Leveraging blockchain technology in humanitarian settings – opportunities and risks for women and girls

11/07/2019

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leveraging blockchain technology in humanitarian settings – opportunities and risks for women and girls

Keywords

Overview

There is an increasing acknowledgement among policymakers and private-sector partners that we cannot overcome the challenges of our time without harnessing the potential of emerging technologies. As blockchain technology is rapidly being introduced to support work across a wide number of areas of humanitarian action, this article considers its potential impact on women and girls. […]

Research report

Breaking a Culture of Silence: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls in Nigeria

28/02/2018

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women and girls is often perpetuated by practices defended by some community members on the basis of tradition, culture, religion or superstition. These include female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and early marriage. Such harmful traditional practices are underpinned by social norms, the rules of behaviour that people in a group adhere to because they […]

Case study

Building Gender Sensitive Resilience Through Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons learned from pastoralist women in Ethiopia

30/11/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In addition to ethnicity, age, or disability, gender in the Somali region of Ethiopia strongly intersects with pastoralism, a predominant livelihood in East Africa and the Horn. This paper explores how the overlap of a double marginalized identity produces particular disadvantages for pastoralist women in Ethiopia, and how an Oxfam intervention in the Somali region […]

Journal article

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

31/08/2022

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

Pacific women’s unique economic experiences are under-represented in Pacific development initiatives. Economic empowerment initiatives typically focus on economic participation, without consideration for women’s household labour and the unequal social and economic dynamics within their homes and communities. Within the context of COVID-19, these inequalities have become more pronounced and the need to address them more […]

Research report

Intersecting Injustices: The links between social norms, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and violence against women and girls

12/11/2020

2 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the Philippines, poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of women and girls is a grave public health challenge: one in five girls is a mother by age 19, two-thirds of women are not using any form of birth control, and more than a third of women’s pregnancies are unwanted. This study provides insights into […]

Journal article

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

In August 2005, a campaign was initiated in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, to obtain government land for landless families. Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), a grassroots collective of rural women, supported women’s land and property rights in the context of the campaign. In this article, we assess the impact of this campaign on women in […]

Journal article

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

20/07/2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women in El Salvador – a country made fragile by a vicious Civil War and the subsequent burgeoning of murderous youth gangs – has been described as lying on the knife’s edge between public and private (Hume 2009). Women’s experiences of violence are often invalidated by wider society for violating a normalised culture […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

01/02/1995

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

Keywords

Overview

This article argues that for the human rights movement to become international, it must start by appreciating local and national contexts. The expectations and experiences of Muslim women are hugely diverse, depending on the culture they are born into. ‘Women Living Under Muslin Law’ unites women from different countries to organise for change according to […]

Journal article

Women and Disability Don’t Mix!’: double discrimination and disabled women’s rights

01/06/1995

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and Disability Don’t Mix!’: double discrimination and disabled women’s rights

Keywords

Overview

It is imperative to understand and address gender issues and how they impact upon a person’s experience of disability, in order to develop a strategy for establishing and enforcing the human rights of women and men with disabilities. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for […]

Evaluation report

Report of a Baseline Survey of Women Domestic Workers in Mukuru Informal Settlement – Nairobi Kenya

01/08/2013

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Through this project, Oxfam gained insight into the lives of thousands of women in Mukuru informal settlements who work as casual domestic workers and that these women faced serious livelihood challenges which include low and delayed pay, poor working conditions and sexual exploitation as well as physical and psychological abuse. Despite these challenges, they continue […]

Journal article

Leveraging blockchain technology in humanitarian settings – opportunities and risks for women and girls

11/07/2019

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leveraging blockchain technology in humanitarian settings – opportunities and risks for women and girls

Keywords

Overview

There is an increasing acknowledgement among policymakers and private-sector partners that we cannot overcome the challenges of our time without harnessing the potential of emerging technologies. As blockchain technology is rapidly being introduced to support work across a wide number of areas of humanitarian action, this article considers its potential impact on women and girls. […]

Research report

Breaking a Culture of Silence: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls in Nigeria

28/02/2018

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women and girls is often perpetuated by practices defended by some community members on the basis of tradition, culture, religion or superstition. These include female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and early marriage. Such harmful traditional practices are underpinned by social norms, the rules of behaviour that people in a group adhere to because they […]

Case study

Building Gender Sensitive Resilience Through Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons learned from pastoralist women in Ethiopia

30/11/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In addition to ethnicity, age, or disability, gender in the Somali region of Ethiopia strongly intersects with pastoralism, a predominant livelihood in East Africa and the Horn. This paper explores how the overlap of a double marginalized identity produces particular disadvantages for pastoralist women in Ethiopia, and how an Oxfam intervention in the Somali region […]

Journal article

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

31/08/2022

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

Pacific women’s unique economic experiences are under-represented in Pacific development initiatives. Economic empowerment initiatives typically focus on economic participation, without consideration for women’s household labour and the unequal social and economic dynamics within their homes and communities. Within the context of COVID-19, these inequalities have become more pronounced and the need to address them more […]

Research report

Intersecting Injustices: The links between social norms, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and violence against women and girls

12/11/2020

2 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the Philippines, poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of women and girls is a grave public health challenge: one in five girls is a mother by age 19, two-thirds of women are not using any form of birth control, and more than a third of women’s pregnancies are unwanted. This study provides insights into […]

Journal article

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

01/03/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s perceptions of land ownership: a case study from Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Keywords

Overview

In August 2005, a campaign was initiated in Kutch District, Gujarat, India, to obtain government land for landless families. Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), a grassroots collective of rural women, supported women’s land and property rights in the context of the campaign. In this article, we assess the impact of this campaign on women in […]

Journal article

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

20/07/2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

Keywords

Overview

Violence against women in El Salvador – a country made fragile by a vicious Civil War and the subsequent burgeoning of murderous youth gangs – has been described as lying on the knife’s edge between public and private (Hume 2009). Women’s experiences of violence are often invalidated by wider society for violating a normalised culture […]