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Public Opinion Survey on Metals Mining in Guatemala

11/08/2010

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9 pages long

Languages: English

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Executive summary of a report by the Association for Social Research and Study (ASÍES)

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Journal article

Liberalisation, gender, and the land question in sub-Saharan Africa

01/11/1999

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Liberalisation, gender, and the land question in sub-Saharan Africa

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This paper focuses on land reform initiatives undertaken in a number of African countries since the late 1980s. Current theories of land and debates on gender issues fail to explain the complex processes through which women’s access and rights to land have been affected, contested, and negotiated during socio-economic and political restructuring. Drawing on the […]

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Funding schemes and support towards gender-based violence prevention and sexual and reproductive health in Lebanon: a critical analysis of their impacts on human rights defenders

23/05/2023

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Funding schemes and support towards gender-based violence prevention and sexual and reproductive health in Lebanon: a critical analysis of their impacts on human rights defenders

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Since 2019, Lebanon has undergone multiple economic, political, and social crises that have exacerbated the heavy burdens on its population, including poverty, unemployment, and economic precarity. The ramifications of these recent shocks for gender-based violence (GBV) and access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services are particularly stark, which has drawn the attention and concern […]

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Research report

Cost-Benefit Study of the Marlin Mine in San Marcos, Guatemala

11/08/2010

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8 pages long

Languages: English

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An executive summary of the report by the Association for Social Research and Study (ASÍES)

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Research report

Below the Breadline: The relentless rise of food poverty in Britain

09/06/2014

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46 pages long

Languages: English

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Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, it is also deeply unequal, and millions of families across the UK are living below the breadline. Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty have calculated that 20,247,042 meals were given to people in food poverty in 2013/14 by the three main food aid providers. […]

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Journal article

Pathways to empowerment? Reflections on microfinance and transformation in gender relations in South Asia

01/03/2001

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Pathways to empowerment? Reflections on microfinance and transformation in gender relations in South Asia

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This paper reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of approaches taken by three NGOs in Bangladesh and one NGO based in Bihar in India. All these NGOs consider the provision of microfinance to women to be a major strategy for empowering women. Our reflections in this article draw on a review of the literature on […]

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Journal article

Safe motherhood in the time of AIDS: the illusion of reproductive ‘choice’

01/07/2001

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Safe motherhood in the time of AIDS: the illusion of reproductive ‘choice’

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Using data from research in Zambia, and drawing on the broader literature on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and gender, this paper examines the difficulties faced by women who wish – or are pressured – to have children, but at the same time want to protect themselves and their children against HIV infection. This article is hosted […]

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Journal article

Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

23/05/2023

17 pages long

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Lucha Castro: a women’s rights defender’s strength in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico

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Numerous studies from North- and South-based scholars have examined the femicides and disappearances/abductions of women and girls in Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. The Campo Algodonero ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2009), where the Court held Mexico responsible for the handling of disappearances and murders of women, whose bodies, like tens of other women, […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Social Norms Diagnostic Tool: Sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence

12/11/2020

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34 pages long

Languages: English

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This Social Norms Diagnostic Tool is a feminist, participatory research approach designed to help programme teams identify and discuss social norms, perceptions and expectations that shape, constrain or promote gender-based violence (GBV) and intimate partner violence (IPV); child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM); and women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) within […]

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Briefing note

Harmful Side Effects: How drug companies undermine global health

18/09/2018

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24 pages long

Languages: English

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New Oxfam research shows that four pharmaceutical companies – Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer – systematically hide their profits in overseas tax havens. They appear to deprive developing countries of more than $100m (around £80m) every year – money that is urgently needed to meet the health needs of people in these countries […]

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