Oxfam KEDV Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

16/03/2026

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

Keywords

Overview

Women and girls with diverse disabilities have been largely neglected in the World Conference on Women (WCW) documents in the decades preceding the Fourth WCW in Beijing in 1995, which endorsed the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), and the subsequent five-yearly implementation reports up to and including the report for Beijing+30. Although the Beijing WCW […]

View resource

Journal article

Beijing+30

16/03/2026

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This document introduces the Gender and Development journal’s November 2025 Special Issue titled, ‘Beijing +30’.

View resource

Journal article

Resources: Beijing +30

16/03/2026

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This document includes the resources section for the Beijing +30 special issue.

View resource

Journal article

Queering Beijing+30 in the digital age: addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence against Queer communities in South Asia by One Future Collective

16/03/2026

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Queering Beijing+30 in the digital age: addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence against Queer communities in South Asia by One Future Collective

Keywords

Overview

As digital technologies reshape political and social landscapes, queer individuals face escalating technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), including doxxing, online harassment, deepfake abuse, and state surveillance. While the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) is committed to eliminating violence against women and gender minorities, it could not have anticipated the emergence of digital violence as a key […]

View resource

Journal article

Thirty years after the Beijing Platform for Action: Experiences of institutionalisation, emerging generations of feminists, the rise of global anti-rights trends, and contemporary fault lines

16/03/2026

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Thirty years after the Beijing Platform for Action: Experiences of institutionalisation, emerging generations of feminists, the rise of global anti-rights trends, and contemporary fault lines

Keywords

Overview

The 69th session of the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) was convened in New York in March 2025 to mark 30 years since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) during the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. This commemoration unfolded under extraordinary circumstances, as the […]

View resource

Journal article

Bridging the gender gap in the digital age: the role of digital governance in advancing feminist futures post-Beijing+30

16/03/2026

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Bridging the gender gap in the digital age: the role of digital governance in advancing feminist futures post-Beijing+30

Keywords

Overview

As the global community reflects on 30 years since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), digital transformation presents opportunities and challenges for gender equality. Digital technologies offer new avenues for feminist advocacy, economic empowerment, and inclusive governance. However, these also intensify existing inequalities through the digital divide, algorithmic bias, and online gender-based violence. Using an […]

View resource

Journal article

Building feminist just futures: strategies to end gender-based violence

16/03/2026

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building feminist just futures: strategies to end gender-based violence

Keywords

Overview

In 2024–2025, as part of the Beijing+30 review processes, feminist groups undertook national reviews and consultations, and contributed to regional and global advocacy efforts to hold states accountable to their commitments to gender equality. In India, the Beijing+30 review process co-led by the Civil Society Steering Committee for India, in partnership with feminist groups, supported […]

View resource

Journal article

The radical political imagination of Black Brazilian women: models of resistance

16/03/2026

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

The radical political imagination of Black Brazilian women: models of resistance

Keywords

Overview

Even though significant progress has been made in advancing women’s rights since the Fourth World Conference on Women, the issue of gender-based political violence – particularly as it affects Black women – was not sufficiently prioritised in the Declaration and Platform for Action adopted in Beijing, in 1995. This work analyses the resolutions and political […]

View resource

Journal article

‘We are citizens too’: LGBTQIA+ claims for human rights in postwar Guatemala

16/03/2026

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘We are citizens too’: LGBTQIA+ claims for human rights in postwar Guatemala

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, when Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, the country reaffirmed its commitments to ending gender inequality and promoting women’s human rights as part of its postwar development agenda, and in keeping with its obligations to implement the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). However, LGBTQIA+ rights were excluded: rather, LGBTQIA+ activists and development practitioners persistently […]

View resource

Journal article

Thirty years on: macroeconomic trajectory and the challenge of a feminist fiscal policy for Latin America

16/03/2026

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Thirty years on: macroeconomic trajectory and the challenge of a feminist fiscal policy for Latin America

Keywords

Overview

This article analyses the evolution of the context and fiscal policies in Latin America 30 years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BDPfA). The extractive economic growth model did not generate enough quality jobs to guarantee women’s economic autonomy throughout their life cycle, while the demographic transition has driven ageing, […]

View resource

Oxfam KEDV

Filter Resources by