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Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

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Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

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Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

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Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

01/07/2009

12 pages long

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Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

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An important feature of contemporary globalisation has been the ‘feminisation of agriculture’ across the global south, as numerous new regions of export horticulture emerge to supply global retailers. Much literature details the poor conditions faced by women workers. This article details the formation and expansion of a highly globally integrated export horticulture sector in north-east […]

Webpage

Food & Livelihoods

Securing people’s rights to food, income security and decent work is critical to eradicating extreme poverty

Research report

Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Response to government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

13/02/2006

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam warmly welcomes the proposed introduction of a public sector duty to promote gender equality as the most significant change in legislation underpinning gender equality since the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts of the 1970s. In this submission, we address Oxfam’s key concerns, including: the importance of a strategic approach; issues of structural inequality […]

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Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space

19/09/2024

18 pages long

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Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space

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Since the early days of the Syrian Civil War, the presence of Syrians in Turkey has garnered considerable attention. Together with the European Union’s efforts to externalise the perceived problem of incoming Syrians and the consequential positioning of Syrians as unwanted, Turkish official policy labelling Syrians as temporary guests has had profound implications in society. […]

Journal article

NGO responses to trafficking in women

01/03/2002

9 pages long

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NGO responses to trafficking in women

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Overview

As trafficking worldwide has become increasingly more sophisticated and widespread, some governments are implementing new legislation, hosting international conferences, and signing new and existing conventions. The United Nations (UN) and other Inter-Governmental Organisations (IGOs) are dedicating substantial resources to developing more effective solutions. However, the relative absence of government initiatives and assistance for trafficking victims, […]

Case study

Honduras: Analysis of the impact of the Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) on workers’ rights and occupational health, 2002 to 2005

14/06/2008

2 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

The Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) is a feminist organisation which defends women’s rights in Honduras through capacity building, legal action, and public campaigning. This paper describes CODEMUH’s public campaign in support of women’s labour rights and occupational health, focusing on export garment industries. Efforts to increase Honduran manufacturing productivity in the context of global […]

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Slavery and gender: women’s double exploitation

01/03/2002

6 pages long

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Slavery and gender: women’s double exploitation

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Overview

For many people, the word slavery conjures up images from history – of the transatlantic slave trade, the practice of buying and selling people that the modern world is supposed to have left behind, and of the 19th century abolitionist movement. But the reality is that not only does slavery exist today, it is expanding. […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]

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Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

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Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

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Overview

This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

Keywords

Overview

An important feature of contemporary globalisation has been the ‘feminisation of agriculture’ across the global south, as numerous new regions of export horticulture emerge to supply global retailers. Much literature details the poor conditions faced by women workers. This article details the formation and expansion of a highly globally integrated export horticulture sector in north-east […]

Webpage

Food & Livelihoods

Securing people’s rights to food, income security and decent work is critical to eradicating extreme poverty

Research report

Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Response to government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

13/02/2006

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam warmly welcomes the proposed introduction of a public sector duty to promote gender equality as the most significant change in legislation underpinning gender equality since the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts of the 1970s. In this submission, we address Oxfam’s key concerns, including: the importance of a strategic approach; issues of structural inequality […]

Journal article

Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space

19/09/2024

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space

Keywords

Overview

Since the early days of the Syrian Civil War, the presence of Syrians in Turkey has garnered considerable attention. Together with the European Union’s efforts to externalise the perceived problem of incoming Syrians and the consequential positioning of Syrians as unwanted, Turkish official policy labelling Syrians as temporary guests has had profound implications in society. […]

Journal article

NGO responses to trafficking in women

01/03/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

NGO responses to trafficking in women

Keywords

Overview

As trafficking worldwide has become increasingly more sophisticated and widespread, some governments are implementing new legislation, hosting international conferences, and signing new and existing conventions. The United Nations (UN) and other Inter-Governmental Organisations (IGOs) are dedicating substantial resources to developing more effective solutions. However, the relative absence of government initiatives and assistance for trafficking victims, […]

Case study

Honduras: Analysis of the impact of the Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) on workers’ rights and occupational health, 2002 to 2005

14/06/2008

2 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) is a feminist organisation which defends women’s rights in Honduras through capacity building, legal action, and public campaigning. This paper describes CODEMUH’s public campaign in support of women’s labour rights and occupational health, focusing on export garment industries. Efforts to increase Honduran manufacturing productivity in the context of global […]

Journal article

Slavery and gender: women’s double exploitation

01/03/2002

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Slavery and gender: women’s double exploitation

Keywords

Overview

For many people, the word slavery conjures up images from history – of the transatlantic slave trade, the practice of buying and selling people that the modern world is supposed to have left behind, and of the 19th century abolitionist movement. But the reality is that not only does slavery exist today, it is expanding. […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]

Journal article

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

01/03/2008

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Investing in women farmers to eliminate food insecurity in southern Africa: policy-related research from Mozambique

Keywords

Overview

About 70 per cent of the population in Southern Africa depends on agriculture as the main source of food, income, and employment. Women produce an estimated 70 per cent of the food in the region. Recent studies have pointed to governments’ failure to invest in women farmers as one of the major contributing factors to […]

Journal article

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

01/07/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Trade unions and women’s empowerment in North-East Brazil

Keywords

Overview

An important feature of contemporary globalisation has been the ‘feminisation of agriculture’ across the global south, as numerous new regions of export horticulture emerge to supply global retailers. Much literature details the poor conditions faced by women workers. This article details the formation and expansion of a highly globally integrated export horticulture sector in north-east […]

Webpage

Food & Livelihoods

Securing people’s rights to food, income security and decent work is critical to eradicating extreme poverty

Research report

Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Response to government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

13/02/2006

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam warmly welcomes the proposed introduction of a public sector duty to promote gender equality as the most significant change in legislation underpinning gender equality since the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts of the 1970s. In this submission, we address Oxfam’s key concerns, including: the importance of a strategic approach; issues of structural inequality […]

Journal article

Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space

19/09/2024

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space

Keywords

Overview

Since the early days of the Syrian Civil War, the presence of Syrians in Turkey has garnered considerable attention. Together with the European Union’s efforts to externalise the perceived problem of incoming Syrians and the consequential positioning of Syrians as unwanted, Turkish official policy labelling Syrians as temporary guests has had profound implications in society. […]

Journal article

NGO responses to trafficking in women

01/03/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

NGO responses to trafficking in women

Keywords

Overview

As trafficking worldwide has become increasingly more sophisticated and widespread, some governments are implementing new legislation, hosting international conferences, and signing new and existing conventions. The United Nations (UN) and other Inter-Governmental Organisations (IGOs) are dedicating substantial resources to developing more effective solutions. However, the relative absence of government initiatives and assistance for trafficking victims, […]

Case study

Honduras: Analysis of the impact of the Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) on workers’ rights and occupational health, 2002 to 2005

14/06/2008

2 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) is a feminist organisation which defends women’s rights in Honduras through capacity building, legal action, and public campaigning. This paper describes CODEMUH’s public campaign in support of women’s labour rights and occupational health, focusing on export garment industries. Efforts to increase Honduran manufacturing productivity in the context of global […]

Journal article

Slavery and gender: women’s double exploitation

01/03/2002

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Slavery and gender: women’s double exploitation

Keywords

Overview

For many people, the word slavery conjures up images from history – of the transatlantic slave trade, the practice of buying and selling people that the modern world is supposed to have left behind, and of the 19th century abolitionist movement. But the reality is that not only does slavery exist today, it is expanding. […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]

Journal article

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]