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Africa’s Inequality Crisis and the Rise of the Super-Rich

10/07/2025

4 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Africa is facing a double inequality crisis: extreme inequality alongside weak commitment among its governments to fight it. But there is hope. The African Union has urged member states to reduce inequality by 15% in the coming decade and has identified progressive taxation as a key tool to do so. The challenge, though, is the […]

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Discussion paper

Care & the Platform Economy in the UK: A Mapping Exercise

03/07/2025

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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In the UK and globally, in-home domestic childcare and adult care services are increasingly being provided via digital platforms, with significant implications for in-home/domestic care workers. This paper maps what we already know about this phenomenon and identifies knowledge gaps that could be filled through focused research in support of influencing initiatives aimed at improving […]

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Journal article

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

08/05/2025

24 pages long

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Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

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This article explores the gendered experiences of, and responses to, processes of water commodification and scarcity in rural areas of the Toltén River in southern Chile through a decolonial lens. Within the framework of neoliberal water governance, water use rights are primarily owned by large-scale agribusiness and industrial companies, leading to significant socioecological conflicts (dispossession, […]

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Discussion paper

Climate Financing, Institutional Structure, and Budget Tracing in Ethiopia

01/07/2025

1 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper identifies the current situation and future trends of climate financing, institutional capacity, and budget tracing in Ethiopia. It seeks to inform Oxfam, partners, and all other stakeholders in the discussion for evidence-based decisions and actions to ensure meaningful and informed participation of citizens in social and financial accountability of climate financing at both […]

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Journal article

Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

08/05/2025

18 pages long

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Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

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Emerging evidence and growing global consensus in policy and advocacy spaces increasingly link secure and gender-equitable land tenure rights to more effective, just, and efficient action to address the urgent desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD) crisis. However, both women’s rights to land and efforts to combat DLDD are complex, requiring both conceptual and practical […]

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Research report

Human Rights Impact Assessment of Bolton Food’s Canned Tuna Supply Chain in Ecuador

23/06/2025

2 documents

114 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper presents the first of three Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) conducted by Oxfam on behalf of Bolton Food, focusing on its tuna supply chain in Ecuador between 2021 and 2022. The assessment evaluates both actual and potential human rights impacts at the production stage of the value chain. It seeks to identify the […]

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Journal article

Storm in a Water Pot

08/05/2025

4 pages long

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Water rights

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This deals with water rights and the water rights movement in rural India.

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Research report

Human Rights Impact Assessment of Bolton Food’s Canned Tuna Operations in Morocco

22/06/2025

2 documents

114 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reports on the second human rights impact assessment (HRIA) carried out by Oxfam at Nouvelle Cosarno, Bolton Food’s tuna cannery in the coastal city of Agadir, Morocco. The factory employs more than 400 workers, 90% of whom are performing manual tasks (blue-collar workers). Women make up the majority of the manual workers (71%). […]

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Africa’s Inequality Crisis and the Rise of the Super-Rich

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Overview

Care & the Platform Economy in the UK: A Mapping Exercise

Keywords

Overview

Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile

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Overview

Climate Financing, Institutional Structure, and Budget Tracing in Ethiopia

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Overview

Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

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Overview

Human Rights Impact Assessment of Bolton Food’s Canned Tuna Supply Chain in Ecuador

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Overview

Storm in a Water Pot

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Overview

Human Rights Impact Assessment of Bolton Food’s Canned Tuna Operations in Morocco

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