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‘Mama take us to a country where there is no war’: COVID-19 and mental health challenges for Syrian refugee women in Lebanon

23/03/2021

14 pages long

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‘Mama take us to a country where there is no war’: COVID-19 and mental health challenges for Syrian refugee women in Lebanon

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This paper is an account of my research with Syrian women living in Beirut, Lebanon. I follow the trajectory of Syrian women and the fear and anxiety that has accompanied it, which undermine their mental health. Such a trajectory started with the trauma of the war. It was followed by being forced to leave their […]

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 […]

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Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

01/03/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

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Overview

Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ’empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the […]

Book

Gender and Disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East

01/01/1997

1 documents

104 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Social protection

Overview

Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability, in the Middle Eastern context. It provides a general overview of gender and disability and includes several case studies from the Lebanon, Yemen, and the […]

Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

Journal article

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

01/08/2012

15 pages long

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The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

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Overview

Legal reform is necessary but not sufficient to realise women’s rights. This paper compares two campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria: attempts to domesticate the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in federal law, which resulted in defeat of the bill in 2007, and a successful campaign to […]

Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

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Overview

As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

20/07/2016

13 pages long

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Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

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Overview

This article explores how women’s movements in China, India, and Indonesia have mobilised to influence processes of legal reform on violence against women and girls (VAWG). Legal change is a complex and iterative process, in which both state and non-state actors negotiate and bargain over the content of law in the ‘policy space’, bringing different […]

Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

Journal article

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

10/11/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

Keywords

Overview

Globalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use; land transaction costs affect food prices; and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and who put food on the table for their families. This paper examines three issues: what is attracting investors and market speculators into the farm and land sectors? What […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

‘Mama take us to a country where there is no war’: COVID-19 and mental health challenges for Syrian refugee women in Lebanon

23/03/2021

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Mama take us to a country where there is no war’: COVID-19 and mental health challenges for Syrian refugee women in Lebanon

Keywords

Overview

This paper is an account of my research with Syrian women living in Beirut, Lebanon. I follow the trajectory of Syrian women and the fear and anxiety that has accompanied it, which undermine their mental health. Such a trajectory started with the trauma of the war. It was followed by being forced to leave their […]

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 […]

Journal article

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

01/03/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ’empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the […]

Book

Gender and Disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East

01/01/1997

1 documents

104 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Social protection

Overview

Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability, in the Middle Eastern context. It provides a general overview of gender and disability and includes several case studies from the Lebanon, Yemen, and the […]

Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

Journal article

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

Legal reform is necessary but not sufficient to realise women’s rights. This paper compares two campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria: attempts to domesticate the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in federal law, which resulted in defeat of the bill in 2007, and a successful campaign to […]

Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

Keywords

Overview

As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

20/07/2016

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how women’s movements in China, India, and Indonesia have mobilised to influence processes of legal reform on violence against women and girls (VAWG). Legal change is a complex and iterative process, in which both state and non-state actors negotiate and bargain over the content of law in the ‘policy space’, bringing different […]

Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

Journal article

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

10/11/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

Keywords

Overview

Globalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use; land transaction costs affect food prices; and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and who put food on the table for their families. This paper examines three issues: what is attracting investors and market speculators into the farm and land sectors? What […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

‘Mama take us to a country where there is no war’: COVID-19 and mental health challenges for Syrian refugee women in Lebanon

23/03/2021

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Mama take us to a country where there is no war’: COVID-19 and mental health challenges for Syrian refugee women in Lebanon

Keywords

Overview

This paper is an account of my research with Syrian women living in Beirut, Lebanon. I follow the trajectory of Syrian women and the fear and anxiety that has accompanied it, which undermine their mental health. Such a trajectory started with the trauma of the war. It was followed by being forced to leave their […]

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 […]

Journal article

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

01/03/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ’empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the […]

Book

Gender and Disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East

01/01/1997

1 documents

104 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Social protection

Overview

Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability, in the Middle Eastern context. It provides a general overview of gender and disability and includes several case studies from the Lebanon, Yemen, and the […]

Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

Journal article

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

Keywords

Overview

Legal reform is necessary but not sufficient to realise women’s rights. This paper compares two campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria: attempts to domesticate the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in federal law, which resulted in defeat of the bill in 2007, and a successful campaign to […]

Journal article

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

10/12/2020

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Debt and climate: entangled emergencies derailing women’s rights and gender justice

Keywords

Overview

As a new debt crisis is hitting the global South, aggravated by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and economies will face growing difficulties and challenges to deal with climate emergencies, adaptation, and mitigation. As we have seen in the past, debt crises tend to have a negative impact on women’s rights and […]

Journal article

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

20/07/2016

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

Keywords

Overview

This article explores how women’s movements in China, India, and Indonesia have mobilised to influence processes of legal reform on violence against women and girls (VAWG). Legal change is a complex and iterative process, in which both state and non-state actors negotiate and bargain over the content of law in the ‘policy space’, bringing different […]

Issue briefing

Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

Journal article

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

10/11/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

Keywords

Overview

Globalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use; land transaction costs affect food prices; and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and who put food on the table for their families. This paper examines three issues: what is attracting investors and market speculators into the farm and land sectors? What […]