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Case study

Monitoring the Implementation of Women’s Human-Rights Instruments: The case of the Africa gender monitor

01/02/2008

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

This paper illustrates how Oxfam GB Southern Africa supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to monitor the domestication and implementation of women’s human-rights instruments such as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Africa, using the example of the […]

Journal article

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

25/11/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on agency and citizenship from the point of view of Bangladeshi immigrant women who have been living in UK for the last two generations. They have a transnational identity, living between two cultures, which often have contradictory elements. On the one hand, these women identify themselves as British citizens: a status which […]

Journal article

Visible outside, invisible inside: the power of patriarchy on female protest leaders in conflict and violence-affected settings

07/12/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Visible outside, invisible inside: the power of patriarchy on female protest leaders in conflict and violence-affected settings

Keywords

Overview

The literature on women’s participation in public protests and movements shows that even when they are prominent actors within these, most women are excluded from the male-dominated decision-making spaces within which negotiations with the state occur. In this article we look at the case of an ethnic struggle for rights in a conservative and conflict-affected […]

Briefing paper

The G20 and Gender Equality: How the G20 can advance women’s rights in employment, social protection and fiscal policies

14/07/2014

6 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Across G20 countries and beyond, women are paid less than men, do most of the unpaid labour, are over-represented in part-time work, and are discriminated against in the household, in markets and in institutions. In 2012 in the Los Cabos Declaration, G20 leaders committed to tackling the barriers to women’s full economic and social participation […]

Discussion paper

Work In Life: How an anti-poverty approach to employment support could be transformational for women

24/08/2016

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This discussion paper was commissioned by Oxfam’s UK Programme to evaluate the employability support currently available to women, changes in the structure of the labour market, and the shape of current and future funding. It makes recommendations for programmatic responses to support women into decent work – and to contribute to, and develop, the wider […]

Book

Development with Women

01/01/1999

1 documents

210 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women ‘matter’ in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women’s needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier ‘gender-blind’ efforts which simply ignored women’s specific concerns. Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on […]

Briefing note

Feminist Scorecard 2022: Tracking Welsh Government action to advance women’s rights and gender equality

15/07/2022

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

This scorecard tracks the Welsh government’s progress towards advancing women’s rights and gender equality between 2020 and 2022 in six policy areas: Fair Finance, Caring Responsibilities, Global Women’s Rights, Equal Representation and Leadership, Tackling Gender Health Inequalities, and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. The scorecard examines the official statements, legislation, policies and practice for each policy area […]

Journal article

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

12/12/2023

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

Keywords

Overview

Institutional strengthening, securitisation, free market promotion, and development policy implementation are foundational elements of liberal peace. However, the creation of an inferior colonisable other sustains this link and has justified programmes of violent repression and silencing. Decolonial, post-liberal, localised, and feminist peace-building stances condemn those power structures and promote alternative means of achieving well-being and […]

Journal article

Trafficking and women’s human rights in a globalised world

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trafficking and women’s human rights in a globalised world

Keywords

Overview

According to the United Nations, the global industry of human trafficking generates an estimated 5-7 billion dollars annually, with at least 700,000 victims every year. United Nations figure, quoted in Arlacchi (2000) By all accounts, trafficking in human beings is increasing at staggering rates. Increased economic inequality, with its discriminatory impact on girls and women, […]

Journal article

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

01/07/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

Keywords

Overview

Findings from a recent study on the impact of the economic crisis on informal workers in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa reveal that transmission of the crisis to the informal economy is hitting poor women hard. Women constitute the majority of the informal workforce in most developing countries, and predominate its poorest and most […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Monitoring the Implementation of Women’s Human-Rights Instruments: The case of the Africa gender monitor

01/02/2008

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

This paper illustrates how Oxfam GB Southern Africa supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to monitor the domestication and implementation of women’s human-rights instruments such as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Africa, using the example of the […]

Journal article

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

25/11/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on agency and citizenship from the point of view of Bangladeshi immigrant women who have been living in UK for the last two generations. They have a transnational identity, living between two cultures, which often have contradictory elements. On the one hand, these women identify themselves as British citizens: a status which […]

Journal article

Visible outside, invisible inside: the power of patriarchy on female protest leaders in conflict and violence-affected settings

07/12/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Visible outside, invisible inside: the power of patriarchy on female protest leaders in conflict and violence-affected settings

Keywords

Overview

The literature on women’s participation in public protests and movements shows that even when they are prominent actors within these, most women are excluded from the male-dominated decision-making spaces within which negotiations with the state occur. In this article we look at the case of an ethnic struggle for rights in a conservative and conflict-affected […]

Briefing paper

The G20 and Gender Equality: How the G20 can advance women’s rights in employment, social protection and fiscal policies

14/07/2014

6 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Across G20 countries and beyond, women are paid less than men, do most of the unpaid labour, are over-represented in part-time work, and are discriminated against in the household, in markets and in institutions. In 2012 in the Los Cabos Declaration, G20 leaders committed to tackling the barriers to women’s full economic and social participation […]

Discussion paper

Work In Life: How an anti-poverty approach to employment support could be transformational for women

24/08/2016

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This discussion paper was commissioned by Oxfam’s UK Programme to evaluate the employability support currently available to women, changes in the structure of the labour market, and the shape of current and future funding. It makes recommendations for programmatic responses to support women into decent work – and to contribute to, and develop, the wider […]

Book

Development with Women

01/01/1999

1 documents

210 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women ‘matter’ in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women’s needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier ‘gender-blind’ efforts which simply ignored women’s specific concerns. Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on […]

Briefing note

Feminist Scorecard 2022: Tracking Welsh Government action to advance women’s rights and gender equality

15/07/2022

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

This scorecard tracks the Welsh government’s progress towards advancing women’s rights and gender equality between 2020 and 2022 in six policy areas: Fair Finance, Caring Responsibilities, Global Women’s Rights, Equal Representation and Leadership, Tackling Gender Health Inequalities, and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. The scorecard examines the official statements, legislation, policies and practice for each policy area […]

Journal article

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

12/12/2023

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

Keywords

Overview

Institutional strengthening, securitisation, free market promotion, and development policy implementation are foundational elements of liberal peace. However, the creation of an inferior colonisable other sustains this link and has justified programmes of violent repression and silencing. Decolonial, post-liberal, localised, and feminist peace-building stances condemn those power structures and promote alternative means of achieving well-being and […]

Journal article

Trafficking and women’s human rights in a globalised world

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trafficking and women’s human rights in a globalised world

Keywords

Overview

According to the United Nations, the global industry of human trafficking generates an estimated 5-7 billion dollars annually, with at least 700,000 victims every year. United Nations figure, quoted in Arlacchi (2000) By all accounts, trafficking in human beings is increasing at staggering rates. Increased economic inequality, with its discriminatory impact on girls and women, […]

Journal article

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

01/07/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

Keywords

Overview

Findings from a recent study on the impact of the economic crisis on informal workers in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa reveal that transmission of the crisis to the informal economy is hitting poor women hard. Women constitute the majority of the informal workforce in most developing countries, and predominate its poorest and most […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Monitoring the Implementation of Women’s Human-Rights Instruments: The case of the Africa gender monitor

01/02/2008

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

This paper illustrates how Oxfam GB Southern Africa supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to monitor the domestication and implementation of women’s human-rights instruments such as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Africa, using the example of the […]

Journal article

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

25/11/2011

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s agency and citizenship across transnational identities: a case study of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on agency and citizenship from the point of view of Bangladeshi immigrant women who have been living in UK for the last two generations. They have a transnational identity, living between two cultures, which often have contradictory elements. On the one hand, these women identify themselves as British citizens: a status which […]

Journal article

Visible outside, invisible inside: the power of patriarchy on female protest leaders in conflict and violence-affected settings

07/12/2021

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Visible outside, invisible inside: the power of patriarchy on female protest leaders in conflict and violence-affected settings

Keywords

Overview

The literature on women’s participation in public protests and movements shows that even when they are prominent actors within these, most women are excluded from the male-dominated decision-making spaces within which negotiations with the state occur. In this article we look at the case of an ethnic struggle for rights in a conservative and conflict-affected […]

Briefing paper

The G20 and Gender Equality: How the G20 can advance women’s rights in employment, social protection and fiscal policies

14/07/2014

6 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Across G20 countries and beyond, women are paid less than men, do most of the unpaid labour, are over-represented in part-time work, and are discriminated against in the household, in markets and in institutions. In 2012 in the Los Cabos Declaration, G20 leaders committed to tackling the barriers to women’s full economic and social participation […]

Discussion paper

Work In Life: How an anti-poverty approach to employment support could be transformational for women

24/08/2016

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This discussion paper was commissioned by Oxfam’s UK Programme to evaluate the employability support currently available to women, changes in the structure of the labour market, and the shape of current and future funding. It makes recommendations for programmatic responses to support women into decent work – and to contribute to, and develop, the wider […]

Book

Development with Women

01/01/1999

1 documents

210 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Many practitioners and thinkers have tried to make women ‘matter’ in development. However, women-focused approaches have often sought to address women’s needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live. As a result, they have been perhaps more damaging than earlier ‘gender-blind’ efforts which simply ignored women’s specific concerns. Dorienne Rowan-Campbell introduces papers on […]

Briefing note

Feminist Scorecard 2022: Tracking Welsh Government action to advance women’s rights and gender equality

15/07/2022

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

This scorecard tracks the Welsh government’s progress towards advancing women’s rights and gender equality between 2020 and 2022 in six policy areas: Fair Finance, Caring Responsibilities, Global Women’s Rights, Equal Representation and Leadership, Tackling Gender Health Inequalities, and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. The scorecard examines the official statements, legislation, policies and practice for each policy area […]

Journal article

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

12/12/2023

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women in community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Their struggle for peace building

Keywords

Overview

Institutional strengthening, securitisation, free market promotion, and development policy implementation are foundational elements of liberal peace. However, the creation of an inferior colonisable other sustains this link and has justified programmes of violent repression and silencing. Decolonial, post-liberal, localised, and feminist peace-building stances condemn those power structures and promote alternative means of achieving well-being and […]

Journal article

Trafficking and women’s human rights in a globalised world

01/05/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trafficking and women’s human rights in a globalised world

Keywords

Overview

According to the United Nations, the global industry of human trafficking generates an estimated 5-7 billion dollars annually, with at least 700,000 victims every year. United Nations figure, quoted in Arlacchi (2000) By all accounts, trafficking in human beings is increasing at staggering rates. Increased economic inequality, with its discriminatory impact on girls and women, […]

Journal article

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

01/07/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy: research findings from WIEGO and the Inclusive Cities partners

Keywords

Overview

Findings from a recent study on the impact of the economic crisis on informal workers in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa reveal that transmission of the crisis to the informal economy is hitting poor women hard. Women constitute the majority of the informal workforce in most developing countries, and predominate its poorest and most […]