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Working towards a world free from violence against women: UNIFEM’s contribution

01/11/1998

10 pages long

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Working towards a world free from violence against women: UNIFEM’s contribution

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Overview

Since International Women’s Year in 1975, violence against women has become a pressing concern for governments and the international community. This article discusses UNIFEM’s multi-faceted approach to addressing violence against women at many levels. Key activities are resourcing projects and programmes, regional awareness-raising campaigns, and sharing learning on best practice. This article is hosted by […]

Journal article

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

01/12/2001

10 pages long

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Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

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This paper discusses the rationale behind cash transfer strategies as an alternative means of channelling resources to women and men in humanitarian contexts. It highlights key gender-related considerations that contribute to the success of the strategy. Food aid remains the largest part of United Nations appeals, but it is often delayed, inadequate in quantity and […]

Evaluation report

Addressing Unpaid Care to Close the Gender Gap in the Philippines and Zimbabwe: The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care Project Report, 2016–2019

17/01/2020

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme has been working since 2013 to reignite progress on gender equality by addressing heavy and unequal unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). In its goal to tackle this issue, the WE-Care partnership between Oxfam, Unilever and its Surf brand tested a comprehensive package of interventions to reduce and […]

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

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Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

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Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Case study

Policy Research on the Africa Women’s Protocol

01/02/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

On 11 July 2003, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol is potentially a powerful force for positive change in the lives of African Women. However if this potential is to […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Journal article

COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

31/08/2022

29 pages long

Free access through journal website

COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

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Overview

Studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions had disproportionately negative impacts on the majority of the world’s workers who work informally, and on women informal workers in particular. This reflects the interplay between the pandemic, existing decent work deficits in informal employment, and discriminatory gendered norms within and outside the workplace. Based on […]

Case study

Indigenous Women against Impunity: Challenging discrimination in Guatemala’s legal system

01/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Guatemala signed a peace accord in 1997, after 36 years of conflict. But the legacy of violence continues to haunt its population, especially indigenous people and women, who face ethnic and gender-based discrimination. A culture of impunity dominates the government’s legal system. Only 3 per cent of violent deaths are ever investigated. Violence, especially violence […]

Journal article

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

12/12/2023

14 pages long

Languages: English

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

Keywords

Overview

Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian studies. Their thrust towards decolonising led to an epistemic de-centring of Western hegemony in knowledge production on behalf of marginalised ‘subalterns’. However, Umesh Bagade points out that […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Working towards a world free from violence against women: UNIFEM’s contribution

01/11/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Working towards a world free from violence against women: UNIFEM’s contribution

Keywords

Overview

Since International Women’s Year in 1975, violence against women has become a pressing concern for governments and the international community. This article discusses UNIFEM’s multi-faceted approach to addressing violence against women at many levels. Key activities are resourcing projects and programmes, regional awareness-raising campaigns, and sharing learning on best practice. This article is hosted by […]

Journal article

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

Keywords

Overview

This paper discusses the rationale behind cash transfer strategies as an alternative means of channelling resources to women and men in humanitarian contexts. It highlights key gender-related considerations that contribute to the success of the strategy. Food aid remains the largest part of United Nations appeals, but it is often delayed, inadequate in quantity and […]

Evaluation report

Addressing Unpaid Care to Close the Gender Gap in the Philippines and Zimbabwe: The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care Project Report, 2016–2019

17/01/2020

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme has been working since 2013 to reignite progress on gender equality by addressing heavy and unequal unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). In its goal to tackle this issue, the WE-Care partnership between Oxfam, Unilever and its Surf brand tested a comprehensive package of interventions to reduce and […]

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Case study

Policy Research on the Africa Women’s Protocol

01/02/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

On 11 July 2003, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol is potentially a powerful force for positive change in the lives of African Women. However if this potential is to […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Journal article

COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

31/08/2022

29 pages long

Free access through journal website

COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

Keywords

Overview

Studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions had disproportionately negative impacts on the majority of the world’s workers who work informally, and on women informal workers in particular. This reflects the interplay between the pandemic, existing decent work deficits in informal employment, and discriminatory gendered norms within and outside the workplace. Based on […]

Case study

Indigenous Women against Impunity: Challenging discrimination in Guatemala’s legal system

01/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Guatemala signed a peace accord in 1997, after 36 years of conflict. But the legacy of violence continues to haunt its population, especially indigenous people and women, who face ethnic and gender-based discrimination. A culture of impunity dominates the government’s legal system. Only 3 per cent of violent deaths are ever investigated. Violence, especially violence […]

Journal article

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

12/12/2023

14 pages long

Languages: English

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

Keywords

Overview

Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian studies. Their thrust towards decolonising led to an epistemic de-centring of Western hegemony in knowledge production on behalf of marginalised ‘subalterns’. However, Umesh Bagade points out that […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Working towards a world free from violence against women: UNIFEM’s contribution

01/11/1998

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Working towards a world free from violence against women: UNIFEM’s contribution

Keywords

Overview

Since International Women’s Year in 1975, violence against women has become a pressing concern for governments and the international community. This article discusses UNIFEM’s multi-faceted approach to addressing violence against women at many levels. Key activities are resourcing projects and programmes, regional awareness-raising campaigns, and sharing learning on best practice. This article is hosted by […]

Journal article

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

01/12/2001

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

Keywords

Overview

This paper discusses the rationale behind cash transfer strategies as an alternative means of channelling resources to women and men in humanitarian contexts. It highlights key gender-related considerations that contribute to the success of the strategy. Food aid remains the largest part of United Nations appeals, but it is often delayed, inadequate in quantity and […]

Evaluation report

Addressing Unpaid Care to Close the Gender Gap in the Philippines and Zimbabwe: The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care Project Report, 2016–2019

17/01/2020

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme has been working since 2013 to reignite progress on gender equality by addressing heavy and unequal unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). In its goal to tackle this issue, the WE-Care partnership between Oxfam, Unilever and its Surf brand tested a comprehensive package of interventions to reduce and […]

Journal article

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

07/11/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women trading in food across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border: experiences and strategies

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on Zimbabwean women who are responding to the economic problems at home by trading food in South Africa. It explores the crops the women market, the strategies they use to access these markets, the challenges they face in South Africa, and the way they handle and resolve conflicts of various kinds which […]

Case study

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Overview

07/02/2008

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The right to participate in decision-making at the local, national, and international level is one which women are often denied, whether as active citizens or as leaders. In particular, women living in poverty often have very little opportunity to influence decisions and policies that will have a direct influence on their lives and livelihoods, and […]

Case study

Policy Research on the Africa Women’s Protocol

01/02/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

On 11 July 2003, the Heads of State and Government of the African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol is potentially a powerful force for positive change in the lives of African Women. However if this potential is to […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Journal article

COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

31/08/2022

29 pages long

Free access through journal website

COVID-19 impact and recovery for women informal workers – a view from 2021

Keywords

Overview

Studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions had disproportionately negative impacts on the majority of the world’s workers who work informally, and on women informal workers in particular. This reflects the interplay between the pandemic, existing decent work deficits in informal employment, and discriminatory gendered norms within and outside the workplace. Based on […]

Case study

Indigenous Women against Impunity: Challenging discrimination in Guatemala’s legal system

01/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Guatemala signed a peace accord in 1997, after 36 years of conflict. But the legacy of violence continues to haunt its population, especially indigenous people and women, who face ethnic and gender-based discrimination. A culture of impunity dominates the government’s legal system. Only 3 per cent of violent deaths are ever investigated. Violence, especially violence […]

Journal article

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

12/12/2023

14 pages long

Languages: English

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

Keywords

Overview

Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian studies. Their thrust towards decolonising led to an epistemic de-centring of Western hegemony in knowledge production on behalf of marginalised ‘subalterns’. However, Umesh Bagade points out that […]