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Research report

UK Policy Agenda: Oxfam’s poverty programme

29/04/2005

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The proposals set out in this report highlight issues where Oxfam believes government policy and strategy need to be developed and further action taken in order to promote poverty reduction, social justice and a fair society for all. Oxfam believes that poverty, social exclusion and discrimination represent a denial of human rights, preventing people from […]

Briefing paper

Evitar el Etnocidio: Pueblos indígenas y derechos territoriales en crisis frente a la COVID-19 en América Latina

21/07/2020

2 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Mientras el mundo entero trata de ponerse a salvo de la pandemia, los pueblos indígenas de América Latina agonizan y algunos podrían llegar a desaparecer. El abandono estatal y la ausencia de servicios adecuados de salud integral y agua segura los hace extremadamente vulnerables al virus que se extiende a toda velocidad por el continente. […]

Issue briefing

Towards a Fair and Just Fiscal Policy in Pakistan

05/06/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Pakistan does not currently mobilize sufficient tax revenue to finance essential public services, including healthcare and education, on which the poor rely the most. Consequently, these services remain inadequate, hampering efforts to reduce poverty and address extreme inequalities. Furthermore, the current tax system in Pakistan is seen by many as unfair and inequitable. Two-thirds of […]

Journal article

Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

10/12/2020

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

Keywords

Overview

In the wake of the introduction of the Resolution for a Green New Deal to the US House of Representatives in 2019, feminist climate justice activists and organisers initiated and cultivated the Feminist Coalition for a Green New Deal. The Coalition advances an intersectional feminist analysis as part of the national conversation about the Green […]

Journal article

Gender, poverty, and intergenerational vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

01/11/2002

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, poverty, and intergenerational vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how poverty and inequality increase girls’ vulnerability to HIV, and affect the ability of older women to care for AIDS sufferers. It outlines the responses of health providers and development organisations to the crisis, and recommends that gender and age analysis be integrated into health and development policy and practice. This article […]

Briefing paper

Falling Through the Net: A Survey of Basic Labour Rights Among Migrants Working in Thailand’s Fishing Sector

20/07/2020

2 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this report is to document the rights situation of workers in Thailand’s fishing sector, particularly in the context of recent reduced international pressure. In January 2019, the European Union lifted its ‘yellow card’ from Thailand, following important strides of the Government of Thailand in addressing violations of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) […]

Education resource

What do we all need to thrive? Home Learning Activities for ages 7-14

06/01/2021

3 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

We’ve created a selection of themed learning content on the Oxfam Education website for use at home, in the classroom or both! Consider what we all need to thrive, explore what connects us and be inspired to make a difference. The following short activity ideas could be used to prompt thinking and discussion about what […]

Briefing note

Debt and Public Services

01/10/2007

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The debt crisis has its origins in the 1970s and 1980s, when rich governments and companies lent huge sums to developing countries, often knowingly to corrupt regimes and to serve their own political or commercial ends. Whilst there have been major steps forward in cancelling debt, in response to campaigner pressure, the rich world has […]

Journal article

Introduction

01/06/1994

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since autumn 1992 harassment of people of Kasaian origin in Shaba (formerly Katanga) in southern Zaire has resulted in massive displacement. More than 150,000 people have fled north into East and West Kasai, using whatever transport they could find. In October 1992 a Comite de Co-ordination des Refoules (CCR) was set up by local churches, […]

Briefing paper

No Accident: Resilience and the inequality of risk

21/05/2013

6 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

A new international emphasis on building resilience offers real promise to allow the poorest women and men to cope with, and ultimately thrive, in the face of shocks, stresses, and uncertainty. But only if risk is more equally shared globally and across societies – this will require a major shift in our approach to poverty […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

UK Policy Agenda: Oxfam’s poverty programme

29/04/2005

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The proposals set out in this report highlight issues where Oxfam believes government policy and strategy need to be developed and further action taken in order to promote poverty reduction, social justice and a fair society for all. Oxfam believes that poverty, social exclusion and discrimination represent a denial of human rights, preventing people from […]

Briefing paper

Evitar el Etnocidio: Pueblos indígenas y derechos territoriales en crisis frente a la COVID-19 en América Latina

21/07/2020

2 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Mientras el mundo entero trata de ponerse a salvo de la pandemia, los pueblos indígenas de América Latina agonizan y algunos podrían llegar a desaparecer. El abandono estatal y la ausencia de servicios adecuados de salud integral y agua segura los hace extremadamente vulnerables al virus que se extiende a toda velocidad por el continente. […]

Issue briefing

Towards a Fair and Just Fiscal Policy in Pakistan

05/06/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Pakistan does not currently mobilize sufficient tax revenue to finance essential public services, including healthcare and education, on which the poor rely the most. Consequently, these services remain inadequate, hampering efforts to reduce poverty and address extreme inequalities. Furthermore, the current tax system in Pakistan is seen by many as unfair and inequitable. Two-thirds of […]

Journal article

Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

10/12/2020

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

Keywords

Overview

In the wake of the introduction of the Resolution for a Green New Deal to the US House of Representatives in 2019, feminist climate justice activists and organisers initiated and cultivated the Feminist Coalition for a Green New Deal. The Coalition advances an intersectional feminist analysis as part of the national conversation about the Green […]

Journal article

Gender, poverty, and intergenerational vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

01/11/2002

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, poverty, and intergenerational vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how poverty and inequality increase girls’ vulnerability to HIV, and affect the ability of older women to care for AIDS sufferers. It outlines the responses of health providers and development organisations to the crisis, and recommends that gender and age analysis be integrated into health and development policy and practice. This article […]

Briefing paper

Falling Through the Net: A Survey of Basic Labour Rights Among Migrants Working in Thailand’s Fishing Sector

20/07/2020

2 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this report is to document the rights situation of workers in Thailand’s fishing sector, particularly in the context of recent reduced international pressure. In January 2019, the European Union lifted its ‘yellow card’ from Thailand, following important strides of the Government of Thailand in addressing violations of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) […]

Education resource

What do we all need to thrive? Home Learning Activities for ages 7-14

06/01/2021

3 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

We’ve created a selection of themed learning content on the Oxfam Education website for use at home, in the classroom or both! Consider what we all need to thrive, explore what connects us and be inspired to make a difference. The following short activity ideas could be used to prompt thinking and discussion about what […]

Briefing note

Debt and Public Services

01/10/2007

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The debt crisis has its origins in the 1970s and 1980s, when rich governments and companies lent huge sums to developing countries, often knowingly to corrupt regimes and to serve their own political or commercial ends. Whilst there have been major steps forward in cancelling debt, in response to campaigner pressure, the rich world has […]

Journal article

Introduction

01/06/1994

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since autumn 1992 harassment of people of Kasaian origin in Shaba (formerly Katanga) in southern Zaire has resulted in massive displacement. More than 150,000 people have fled north into East and West Kasai, using whatever transport they could find. In October 1992 a Comite de Co-ordination des Refoules (CCR) was set up by local churches, […]

Briefing paper

No Accident: Resilience and the inequality of risk

21/05/2013

6 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

A new international emphasis on building resilience offers real promise to allow the poorest women and men to cope with, and ultimately thrive, in the face of shocks, stresses, and uncertainty. But only if risk is more equally shared globally and across societies – this will require a major shift in our approach to poverty […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

UK Policy Agenda: Oxfam’s poverty programme

29/04/2005

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The proposals set out in this report highlight issues where Oxfam believes government policy and strategy need to be developed and further action taken in order to promote poverty reduction, social justice and a fair society for all. Oxfam believes that poverty, social exclusion and discrimination represent a denial of human rights, preventing people from […]

Briefing paper

Evitar el Etnocidio: Pueblos indígenas y derechos territoriales en crisis frente a la COVID-19 en América Latina

21/07/2020

2 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Mientras el mundo entero trata de ponerse a salvo de la pandemia, los pueblos indígenas de América Latina agonizan y algunos podrían llegar a desaparecer. El abandono estatal y la ausencia de servicios adecuados de salud integral y agua segura los hace extremadamente vulnerables al virus que se extiende a toda velocidad por el continente. […]

Issue briefing

Towards a Fair and Just Fiscal Policy in Pakistan

05/06/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Pakistan does not currently mobilize sufficient tax revenue to finance essential public services, including healthcare and education, on which the poor rely the most. Consequently, these services remain inadequate, hampering efforts to reduce poverty and address extreme inequalities. Furthermore, the current tax system in Pakistan is seen by many as unfair and inequitable. Two-thirds of […]

Journal article

Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

10/12/2020

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

Keywords

Overview

In the wake of the introduction of the Resolution for a Green New Deal to the US House of Representatives in 2019, feminist climate justice activists and organisers initiated and cultivated the Feminist Coalition for a Green New Deal. The Coalition advances an intersectional feminist analysis as part of the national conversation about the Green […]

Journal article

Gender, poverty, and intergenerational vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

01/11/2002

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, poverty, and intergenerational vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

Keywords

Overview

This article examines how poverty and inequality increase girls’ vulnerability to HIV, and affect the ability of older women to care for AIDS sufferers. It outlines the responses of health providers and development organisations to the crisis, and recommends that gender and age analysis be integrated into health and development policy and practice. This article […]

Briefing paper

Falling Through the Net: A Survey of Basic Labour Rights Among Migrants Working in Thailand’s Fishing Sector

20/07/2020

2 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The purpose of this report is to document the rights situation of workers in Thailand’s fishing sector, particularly in the context of recent reduced international pressure. In January 2019, the European Union lifted its ‘yellow card’ from Thailand, following important strides of the Government of Thailand in addressing violations of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) […]

Education resource

What do we all need to thrive? Home Learning Activities for ages 7-14

06/01/2021

3 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

We’ve created a selection of themed learning content on the Oxfam Education website for use at home, in the classroom or both! Consider what we all need to thrive, explore what connects us and be inspired to make a difference. The following short activity ideas could be used to prompt thinking and discussion about what […]

Briefing note

Debt and Public Services

01/10/2007

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The debt crisis has its origins in the 1970s and 1980s, when rich governments and companies lent huge sums to developing countries, often knowingly to corrupt regimes and to serve their own political or commercial ends. Whilst there have been major steps forward in cancelling debt, in response to campaigner pressure, the rich world has […]

Journal article

Introduction

01/06/1994

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since autumn 1992 harassment of people of Kasaian origin in Shaba (formerly Katanga) in southern Zaire has resulted in massive displacement. More than 150,000 people have fled north into East and West Kasai, using whatever transport they could find. In October 1992 a Comite de Co-ordination des Refoules (CCR) was set up by local churches, […]

Briefing paper

No Accident: Resilience and the inequality of risk

21/05/2013

6 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

A new international emphasis on building resilience offers real promise to allow the poorest women and men to cope with, and ultimately thrive, in the face of shocks, stresses, and uncertainty. But only if risk is more equally shared globally and across societies – this will require a major shift in our approach to poverty […]