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Briefing paper

More than Six Months Stranded – What Now? A Joint Policy Brief on the Situation for Displaced Persons in Greece

14/10/2016

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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This briefing paper is the result of a joint effort by 12 national and international organizations operating in Greece. The aim is to explain the current situation for those stranded in Greece for over six months since the closure of the northern border and introduction of the European Union (EU) – Turkey deal. These events […]

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Research report

Malawi2020: Vulnerability and Risk Assessment in the tea industry

13/10/2016

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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In June 2016, Oxfam conducted a Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) exercise in Mulanje, Southern Malawi, in the context of the Malawi2020 Tea Revitalization Programme (Malawi2020). This programme aims to achieve a competitive, profitable tea industry that can provide living wages and incomes for its workers by 2020. The VRA sought to address the key […]

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Annual report

My Rights My Voice Completion Report 2011-2016

13/10/2016

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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My Rights My Voiice is an innovative programme which aims to unlock young people’s potential by giving them the knowledge, skills and confidence to become ‘active citizens’, able to voice their rights to education and healthcare, and to hold duty bearers to account. Through the MRMV programme, Oxfam and its partners aimed to demonstrate that […]

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Discussion paper

Identifying Gender Inequalities And Possibilities For Change In Shrimp Value Chains In Indonesia And Vietnam

10/10/2016

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South East Asia (GRAISEA) is a regional programme which is funded by the Government of Sweden. Based on the recognition that financial viability and gender equitable and sustainable supply chains are not mutually exclusive, GRAISEA promotes win-win-win propositions: wins for communities, small-scale producers and larger businesses. Since the […]

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Briefing paper

Owning the Outcomes: Time to make the World Bank Group’s financial intermediary investments more accountable

03/10/2016

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Over the past six years, the International Finance Corporation has channelled over $50bn to the financial sector, and its long-term investments in financial intermediaries such as commercial banks and private equity funds have dramatically risen by 45 percent over that same period. However, the evidence continues to grow that this private sector arm of the […]

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Briefing note

Land is Life: The struggle of the Quechua people to gain their land rights

26/09/2016

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Since the early 1970s the government of Peru has given multinational oil companies permission to exploit significant areas of the Amazon – all of which are ancestral territories of indigenous peoples. The Quechua people of Nuevo Andoas have been particularly affected, suffering the health and environmental consequences of a poorly regulated extractives industry. This paper […]

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Briefing note

Development by Dispossession? Forced evictions and land seizures in Paanama, Sri Lanka

26/09/2016

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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In 2010, 350 families of farmers and fisherfolk living in Paanama, a coastal village in the east of Sri Lanka, were forcibly and violently evicted from lands they had cultivated and lived on for over forty years. These lands were taken over by the military to establish camps, and they are now being used to […]

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Briefing note

Making Rights a Reality: The ongoing struggle for land justice in the Kimberley Region, Australia

26/09/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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The situation for Aboriginal people and land rights in the Kimberley is a case study on the contradictory nature of Indigenous policy in Australia. The most vulnerable Australians have to fight – sometimes for decades – to be formally recognized under law as traditional landowners; only to come up against a wall of red tape, […]

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Media briefing

Custodians of the Land, Defenders of our Future: A new era in the global land rush

26/09/2016

4 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Since 2009, Oxfam and others have been raising the alarm about a great global land rush. Millions of hectares of land have been acquired by investors to meet rising demand for food and biofuels, or for speculation. This often happens at the expense of those who need the land most and are best placed to […]

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Briefing paper

Picking Up the Pieces: What Yemenis need to rebuild their lives in a country torn apart by conflict

21/09/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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Since March 2015, more than three million Yemenis have fled their homes, displaced by ongoing conflict. Many have been displaced for months or more than a year; they are quickly running out of ways to make ends meet. The situation is dire and getting worse, and hope for successful peace talks is fading. Both displaced […]

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