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How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

11/07/2019

19 pages long

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How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

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Northern Uganda received significant international attention during and immediately after the conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, in which over 20,000 women and children were abducted and trafficked. However, globally there has been little investigation into the long-term impacts on formerly abducted women in post-conflict reconstruction, or on their own […]

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

20/07/2016

14 pages long

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

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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 […]

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Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

14/11/2018

14 pages long

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Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

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Twenty-five years on from the UN Conferences in Cairo (1994) and Beijing (1995) with their radical vision of women’s rights – including sexual and reproductive rights – this article considers the challenges to women’s rights from the perspective of young feminists connected to FEMNET. It draws on recent research with FEMNET members, partners, allies, and […]

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

01/03/2008

13 pages long

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

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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 […]

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Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

03/11/2008

9 pages long

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Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

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Overview

Malawian women lead their communities as democratic representatives, by participating with men in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Contemporary formal state politics is constructed as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking to explore reasons why this is the […]

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Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

01/07/2011

12 pages long

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Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

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Grassroots women in poor communities are creating their own innovative social protection mechanisms, and often moving beyond this to foster economic growth and prosperity. In this article, we propose an expansion of common understandings of social protection to include these activities initiated by citizens themselves. In this article, we describe strategies being led by grassroots […]

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Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

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Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

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Overview

Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]

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No relief: lived experiences of inadequate sanitation access of poor urban women in India

13/07/2017

16 pages long

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No relief: lived experiences of inadequate sanitation access of poor urban women in India

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Overview

The provision of sanitation in India has attracted much attention, but research and policies focusing on gender in relation to sanitation often fail to focus on sanitation-related violence against women (VAW). This article focuses on research in Pune (in Maharashtra) and Jaipur (in Rajasthan). It offers evidence of slum-dwelling women’s experiences of harassment and violence […]

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Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

01/07/2005

10 pages long

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Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

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Overview

The liberation struggle in South Africa highlighted racial and class oppression as key causes of poverty, inequality, and a lack of rights for most South Africans. Drawing on the language of the struggle, women political and trade union activists brought attention to their oppression and exploitation as women, and were able to place non-sexism alongside […]

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Collective action, organisation building, and leadership: women workers in the garment sector in Bangladesh

01/11/2000

9 pages long

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Collective action, organisation building, and leadership: women workers in the garment sector in Bangladesh

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Overview

A very noticeable feature of economic development in many Asian countries has been the growing employment of young women in industry. Whereas much has been written about the exploitation of the workers, and this is often related to the wider debates about the links between gender relations and globalisation, there has been relatively little analysis […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

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How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

11/07/2019

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

Keywords

Overview

Northern Uganda received significant international attention during and immediately after the conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, in which over 20,000 women and children were abducted and trafficked. However, globally there has been little investigation into the long-term impacts on formerly abducted women in post-conflict reconstruction, or on their own […]

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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 […]

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Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

14/11/2018

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

Keywords

Overview

Twenty-five years on from the UN Conferences in Cairo (1994) and Beijing (1995) with their radical vision of women’s rights – including sexual and reproductive rights – this article considers the challenges to women’s rights from the perspective of young feminists connected to FEMNET. It draws on recent research with FEMNET members, partners, allies, and […]

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

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

03/11/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

Keywords

Overview

Malawian women lead their communities as democratic representatives, by participating with men in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Contemporary formal state politics is constructed as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking to explore reasons why this is the […]

Journal article

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

01/07/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

Keywords

Overview

Grassroots women in poor communities are creating their own innovative social protection mechanisms, and often moving beyond this to foster economic growth and prosperity. In this article, we propose an expansion of common understandings of social protection to include these activities initiated by citizens themselves. In this article, we describe strategies being led by grassroots […]

Journal article

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

Keywords

Overview

Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]

Journal article

No relief: lived experiences of inadequate sanitation access of poor urban women in India

13/07/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

No relief: lived experiences of inadequate sanitation access of poor urban women in India

Keywords

Overview

The provision of sanitation in India has attracted much attention, but research and policies focusing on gender in relation to sanitation often fail to focus on sanitation-related violence against women (VAW). This article focuses on research in Pune (in Maharashtra) and Jaipur (in Rajasthan). It offers evidence of slum-dwelling women’s experiences of harassment and violence […]

Journal article

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

01/07/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

Keywords

Overview

The liberation struggle in South Africa highlighted racial and class oppression as key causes of poverty, inequality, and a lack of rights for most South Africans. Drawing on the language of the struggle, women political and trade union activists brought attention to their oppression and exploitation as women, and were able to place non-sexism alongside […]

Journal article

Collective action, organisation building, and leadership: women workers in the garment sector in Bangladesh

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Collective action, organisation building, and leadership: women workers in the garment sector in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

A very noticeable feature of economic development in many Asian countries has been the growing employment of young women in industry. Whereas much has been written about the exploitation of the workers, and this is often related to the wider debates about the links between gender relations and globalisation, there has been relatively little analysis […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

11/07/2019

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: photovoice evidence from northern Uganda

Keywords

Overview

Northern Uganda received significant international attention during and immediately after the conflict between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, in which over 20,000 women and children were abducted and trafficked. However, globally there has been little investigation into the long-term impacts on formerly abducted women in post-conflict reconstruction, or on their own […]

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 […]

Journal article

Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

14/11/2018

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Repoliticising women’s rights in development: young African feminisms at the cutting edge

Keywords

Overview

Twenty-five years on from the UN Conferences in Cairo (1994) and Beijing (1995) with their radical vision of women’s rights – including sexual and reproductive rights – this article considers the challenges to women’s rights from the perspective of young feminists connected to FEMNET. It draws on recent research with FEMNET members, partners, allies, and […]

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

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

03/11/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Malawian women’s participation in state politics: what are the constraints?

Keywords

Overview

Malawian women lead their communities as democratic representatives, by participating with men in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Contemporary formal state politics is constructed as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking to explore reasons why this is the […]

Journal article

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

01/07/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Leaders, not clients: grassroots women’s groups transforming social protection

Keywords

Overview

Grassroots women in poor communities are creating their own innovative social protection mechanisms, and often moving beyond this to foster economic growth and prosperity. In this article, we propose an expansion of common understandings of social protection to include these activities initiated by citizens themselves. In this article, we describe strategies being led by grassroots […]

Journal article

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

Keywords

Overview

Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]

Journal article

No relief: lived experiences of inadequate sanitation access of poor urban women in India

13/07/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

No relief: lived experiences of inadequate sanitation access of poor urban women in India

Keywords

Overview

The provision of sanitation in India has attracted much attention, but research and policies focusing on gender in relation to sanitation often fail to focus on sanitation-related violence against women (VAW). This article focuses on research in Pune (in Maharashtra) and Jaipur (in Rajasthan). It offers evidence of slum-dwelling women’s experiences of harassment and violence […]

Journal article

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

01/07/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Freedom for women: mainstreaming gender in the South African liberation struggle and beyond

Keywords

Overview

The liberation struggle in South Africa highlighted racial and class oppression as key causes of poverty, inequality, and a lack of rights for most South Africans. Drawing on the language of the struggle, women political and trade union activists brought attention to their oppression and exploitation as women, and were able to place non-sexism alongside […]

Journal article

Collective action, organisation building, and leadership: women workers in the garment sector in Bangladesh

01/11/2000

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Collective action, organisation building, and leadership: women workers in the garment sector in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

A very noticeable feature of economic development in many Asian countries has been the growing employment of young women in industry. Whereas much has been written about the exploitation of the workers, and this is often related to the wider debates about the links between gender relations and globalisation, there has been relatively little analysis […]