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Discussion paper

Towards Gender-Transformative Action on Super Pollutants

25/09/2025

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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The guidance document, Towards Gender-Transformative Action on Super Pollutants, produced in partnership with Oxfam America, identifies gender-differentiated impacts of super pollutants by sector – from gender-related exposure, vulnerability, resources, and decision-making capacity. It shows how women and marginalized groups are disproportionately affected by these pollutants, facing greater health risks, care burdens, and exclusion from decision-making, […]

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Briefing paper

Emerging Good Practices on Embedding Human Rights into Seafood Procurement

30/07/2025

2 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

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As seafood demand rises, it has been accompanied by a growing understanding of persistent human rights abuses. Recent reports have highlighted how poor procurement practices can contribute to abuses, while stronger practices can reduce them. This report reviews the current landscape and how buyers are enhancing their procurement practices to align with their human rights […]

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Briefing paper

Innovative Pathways: When and how to use alternative approaches to Human Rights Impact Assessments

21/02/2025

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Human rights violations are widespread across global supply chains, with companies increasingly exposed to risks like forced labor and environmental degradation. While audits and certifications have proven insufficient in preventing such abuses, a more robust approach is necessary. A Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) is an essential tool that helps businesses identify and assess human […]

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Discussion paper

Defining and Assessing Transformational Climate Change Adaptation: A framework for application to agri-food projects

11/12/2024

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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This discussion paper proposes a framework of four indicators of transformational adaptation – the breadth and depth of change, the intention to achieve transformation, scale and sustainability – and provides a framework to apply these indicators to four types of interventions in agri-food systems. The paper was co-commissioned with Catholic Relief Services.

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Briefing paper

Food Wars: Conflict, Hunger, and Globalization, 2023

16/10/2024

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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Most wars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have been “food wars”: food and hunger were used as weapons, food and food-related water and energy infrastructure were damaged intentionally or incidentally, and food insecurity persisted as a legacy of conflict destructiveness. Frequently, food insecurity, in turn, is a trigger or underlying cause of […]

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Research report

The Crisis of Low Wages: Who earns less than $17 an hour in the U.S. in 2024?

09/07/2024

3 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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According to new data from Oxfam, there are more than 39 million low wage workers in the United States, defined here as any worker earning less than $17 an hour. This translates to 23 percent of the US workforce, or nearly one in four workers in the US. This new research includes a full demographic […]

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Research report

Unseen Work, Unmet Needs: Exploring the intersections of gender, race and ethnicity in unpaid care labor and paid labor in the U.S.

25/04/2024

2 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam America and Prosperity Now have embarked on a comprehensive joint research project to explore the dynamics of women’s paid and unpaid labor in the US, particularly for women of color, who are disproportionately affected by the dual impact of paid work and unpaid care responsibilities. This report adopts an intersectional lens to delve into […]

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Research report

Recharging Community Consent: Mining companies, battery minerals and the battle to break from the past

22/09/2023

2 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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With mining set to expand as part of the sweeping energy transition, it is imperative that future mining only proceed with the full support and consent of Indigenous peoples and frontline communities. In the first policy brief of its kind to focus on the public policy commitments of mining companies extracting five key transition minerals […]

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Research report

Decolonize! What does it mean?

15/12/2022

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This document introduces the key concepts of decolonial theory that inform many current calls to decolonize. It provides examples from Latin America, Africa, and North America of how activists have envisioned or realized decolonial futures. These movements led by Indigenous Peoples, people of color, women, and queer people articulate and define the possibilities of decolonial […]

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Research report

Surviving Deterrence: How US asylum deterrence policies normalize gender-based violence

11/10/2022

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Migrants and asylum seekers often flee unspeakable acts of gender-based violence (GBV) at home such as human trafficking, sexual assault, sexual slavery, kidnapping, harassment, and other trauma. In trying to seek safety in the US, many endure further atrocities and exploitation at the US-Mexico border. Drawing on interviews and surveys of social and legal service […]

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