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Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan

07/12/2022

20 pages long

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Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan

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This paper explores the intersection of work with access to and use of digital technologies and the resulting impact on women’s empowerment. Drawing on detailed in-depth interviews across Pakistan with low-literate, low-income women employed in three categories of work – domestic, factory, and home-based – we map how women’s work intersects with their access to […]

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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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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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Trafficking and women’s human rights in a globalised world

01/05/2003

8 pages long

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Trafficking and women’s human rights in a globalised world

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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, […]

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The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

07/12/2021

24 pages long

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The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

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Overview

The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen Bagh also inspired other sit-ins across the country, including several across Delhi. Yet, nowhere except Shaheen Bagh did the struggle last as long, with the […]

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Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

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Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

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Overview

Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

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Women’s environmental health activism around waste and plastic pollution in the coastal wetlands of Yucatán

13/07/2017

13 pages long

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Women’s environmental health activism around waste and plastic pollution in the coastal wetlands of Yucatán

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Overview

This article focuses on women’s grassroots organisations and their role in confronting waste-induced water, health, and development challenges in low-lying tropical coastal areas. As a case study, the article will focus on women’s waste management and plastics recycling organisations in Yucatán, Mexico and their role in preventing water-borne diseases and educating the community on the […]

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Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

07/12/2021

16 pages long

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Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

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Overview

This article unpacks the ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the case of the adoption and implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) (DVPP) Act 2010 of Bangladesh. It looks at two forms of women’s leadership, one at the civil society/women’s movement level and the other at the female elected representatives at the parliament and executive […]

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Reflections on Womankind Worldwide’s experiences of tackling common challenges in monitoring and evaluating women’s rights programming

09/07/2014

18 pages long

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Reflections on Womankind Worldwide’s experiences of tackling common challenges in monitoring and evaluating women’s rights programming

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Overview

There are a number of technical, conceptual, and institutional challenges in monitoring and evaluating programme work and advocacy on women’s rights. Measuring progress and change is difficult because of the complexity and variety of the work involved in women’s rights projects and programmes, and their limited time-frames. In order to capture change, to promote learning […]

Research report

Resilience in Times of Food Insecurity: Reflecting on the experiences of women’s organizations

15/09/2014

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This research report considers the perspectives of women’s organizations and their strategies in dealing with vulnerability to shocks and crises, and building resilience in a context of food insecurity. The report identifies what 21 women’s organizations across 10 countries consider to be the key threats to resilience, and draws lessons from their ways of working. […]

Journal article

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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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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores the intersection of work with access to and use of digital technologies and the resulting impact on women’s empowerment. Drawing on detailed in-depth interviews across Pakistan with low-literate, low-income women employed in three categories of work – domestic, factory, and home-based – we map how women’s work intersects with their access to […]

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

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 resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

07/12/2021

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

Keywords

Overview

The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen Bagh also inspired other sit-ins across the country, including several across Delhi. Yet, nowhere except Shaheen Bagh did the struggle last as long, with the […]

Journal article

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

Keywords

Overview

Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

Journal article

Women’s environmental health activism around waste and plastic pollution in the coastal wetlands of Yucatán

13/07/2017

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s environmental health activism around waste and plastic pollution in the coastal wetlands of Yucatán

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on women’s grassroots organisations and their role in confronting waste-induced water, health, and development challenges in low-lying tropical coastal areas. As a case study, the article will focus on women’s waste management and plastics recycling organisations in Yucatán, Mexico and their role in preventing water-borne diseases and educating the community on the […]

Journal article

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

07/12/2021

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

Keywords

Overview

This article unpacks the ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the case of the adoption and implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) (DVPP) Act 2010 of Bangladesh. It looks at two forms of women’s leadership, one at the civil society/women’s movement level and the other at the female elected representatives at the parliament and executive […]

Journal article

Reflections on Womankind Worldwide’s experiences of tackling common challenges in monitoring and evaluating women’s rights programming

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reflections on Womankind Worldwide’s experiences of tackling common challenges in monitoring and evaluating women’s rights programming

Keywords

Overview

There are a number of technical, conceptual, and institutional challenges in monitoring and evaluating programme work and advocacy on women’s rights. Measuring progress and change is difficult because of the complexity and variety of the work involved in women’s rights projects and programmes, and their limited time-frames. In order to capture change, to promote learning […]

Research report

Resilience in Times of Food Insecurity: Reflecting on the experiences of women’s organizations

15/09/2014

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This research report considers the perspectives of women’s organizations and their strategies in dealing with vulnerability to shocks and crises, and building resilience in a context of food insecurity. The report identifies what 21 women’s organizations across 10 countries consider to be the key threats to resilience, and draws lessons from their ways of working. […]

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 […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan

07/12/2022

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan

Keywords

Overview

This paper explores the intersection of work with access to and use of digital technologies and the resulting impact on women’s empowerment. Drawing on detailed in-depth interviews across Pakistan with low-literate, low-income women employed in three categories of work – domestic, factory, and home-based – we map how women’s work intersects with their access to […]

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

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 resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

07/12/2021

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India

Keywords

Overview

The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen Bagh also inspired other sit-ins across the country, including several across Delhi. Yet, nowhere except Shaheen Bagh did the struggle last as long, with the […]

Journal article

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

23/03/2021

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, health, and development in post-war Sri Lanka: access to health care for resettled women in Jaffna

Keywords

Overview

Health significantly supports human development, which is particularly critical in countries affected by armed conflict. Health and health care are equally important for women hoping to be effective agents of change in their post-war societies. Through a grounded case study conducted in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 2017, we aimed to understand the […]

Journal article

Women’s environmental health activism around waste and plastic pollution in the coastal wetlands of Yucatán

13/07/2017

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s environmental health activism around waste and plastic pollution in the coastal wetlands of Yucatán

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on women’s grassroots organisations and their role in confronting waste-induced water, health, and development challenges in low-lying tropical coastal areas. As a case study, the article will focus on women’s waste management and plastics recycling organisations in Yucatán, Mexico and their role in preventing water-borne diseases and educating the community on the […]

Journal article

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

07/12/2021

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010

Keywords

Overview

This article unpacks the ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the case of the adoption and implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) (DVPP) Act 2010 of Bangladesh. It looks at two forms of women’s leadership, one at the civil society/women’s movement level and the other at the female elected representatives at the parliament and executive […]

Journal article

Reflections on Womankind Worldwide’s experiences of tackling common challenges in monitoring and evaluating women’s rights programming

09/07/2014

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reflections on Womankind Worldwide’s experiences of tackling common challenges in monitoring and evaluating women’s rights programming

Keywords

Overview

There are a number of technical, conceptual, and institutional challenges in monitoring and evaluating programme work and advocacy on women’s rights. Measuring progress and change is difficult because of the complexity and variety of the work involved in women’s rights projects and programmes, and their limited time-frames. In order to capture change, to promote learning […]

Research report

Resilience in Times of Food Insecurity: Reflecting on the experiences of women’s organizations

15/09/2014

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This research report considers the perspectives of women’s organizations and their strategies in dealing with vulnerability to shocks and crises, and building resilience in a context of food insecurity. The report identifies what 21 women’s organizations across 10 countries consider to be the key threats to resilience, and draws lessons from their ways of working. […]

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 […]