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Research report

“Do Our Voices Matter?”: An analysis of women civil society representatives’ meaningful participation at the UN Security Council

17/12/2020

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Peace is made at home, in the streets, in our communities – and on the world stage. In all these spaces, women in all their diversity work to forge the conditions that make peace possible. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in conflict-affected countries, where diverse women’s organizations draw attention to human rights violations happening […]

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

31/08/2022

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

Pacific women’s unique economic experiences are under-represented in Pacific development initiatives. Economic empowerment initiatives typically focus on economic participation, without consideration for women’s household labour and the unequal social and economic dynamics within their homes and communities. Within the context of COVID-19, these inequalities have become more pronounced and the need to address them more […]

Journal article

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

31/08/2022

31 pages long

Free access through journal website

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

Keywords

Overview

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), in the last 15 years, has evolved as the world’s largest employer of the last resort. This social protection, specifically designed as a demand-driven automatic employment stabiliser to enable households to cope with livelihood shocks, offers 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to all […]

Journal article

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

07/12/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

Keywords

Overview

This paper aims to understand how women’s work tends to be particularly affected by the new wave of Industry 4.0 technologies in Brazil and how public policies could actuate to reduce work gender inequalities throughout this process. We examine the 20 largest occupations for women and cross-check with estimates of automation for the Brazilian labour […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Journal article

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

Keywords

Overview

Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

Journal article

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

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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, […]

Journal article

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

Keywords

Overview

Historians have often highlighted the centrality of bazaars and the streets in urban public life in India as a space for politics and mobilisation. Historically, these bazaars and streets have been the domain of men, while spaces created by dominant urban planning logics like sequestered parks and enclosed marketplaces are marked by exclusion across various […]

Journal article

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

19/09/2024

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

Keywords

Public space and youth

Overview

This paper addresses girls and young women’s experiences of spatial forms of judgement in the public spaces of their local areas. It posits the feminist question: what is the relationship between judgement, gender, youth, and the material realities that make up the public realm? Findings are derived from two seven-week long peer research projects on public space […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

“Do Our Voices Matter?”: An analysis of women civil society representatives’ meaningful participation at the UN Security Council

17/12/2020

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Peace is made at home, in the streets, in our communities – and on the world stage. In all these spaces, women in all their diversity work to forge the conditions that make peace possible. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in conflict-affected countries, where diverse women’s organizations draw attention to human rights violations happening […]

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

31/08/2022

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

Pacific women’s unique economic experiences are under-represented in Pacific development initiatives. Economic empowerment initiatives typically focus on economic participation, without consideration for women’s household labour and the unequal social and economic dynamics within their homes and communities. Within the context of COVID-19, these inequalities have become more pronounced and the need to address them more […]

Journal article

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

31/08/2022

31 pages long

Free access through journal website

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

Keywords

Overview

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), in the last 15 years, has evolved as the world’s largest employer of the last resort. This social protection, specifically designed as a demand-driven automatic employment stabiliser to enable households to cope with livelihood shocks, offers 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to all […]

Journal article

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

07/12/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

Keywords

Overview

This paper aims to understand how women’s work tends to be particularly affected by the new wave of Industry 4.0 technologies in Brazil and how public policies could actuate to reduce work gender inequalities throughout this process. We examine the 20 largest occupations for women and cross-check with estimates of automation for the Brazilian labour […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Journal article

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

Keywords

Overview

Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

Journal article

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

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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, […]

Journal article

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

Keywords

Overview

Historians have often highlighted the centrality of bazaars and the streets in urban public life in India as a space for politics and mobilisation. Historically, these bazaars and streets have been the domain of men, while spaces created by dominant urban planning logics like sequestered parks and enclosed marketplaces are marked by exclusion across various […]

Journal article

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

19/09/2024

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

Keywords

Public space and youth

Overview

This paper addresses girls and young women’s experiences of spatial forms of judgement in the public spaces of their local areas. It posits the feminist question: what is the relationship between judgement, gender, youth, and the material realities that make up the public realm? Findings are derived from two seven-week long peer research projects on public space […]

Showing 500 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

“Do Our Voices Matter?”: An analysis of women civil society representatives’ meaningful participation at the UN Security Council

17/12/2020

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Peace is made at home, in the streets, in our communities – and on the world stage. In all these spaces, women in all their diversity work to forge the conditions that make peace possible. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than in conflict-affected countries, where diverse women’s organizations draw attention to human rights violations happening […]

Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

Journal article

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

31/08/2022

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

From participation to power – Pacific approaches to women’s economic empowerment

Keywords

Overview

Pacific women’s unique economic experiences are under-represented in Pacific development initiatives. Economic empowerment initiatives typically focus on economic participation, without consideration for women’s household labour and the unequal social and economic dynamics within their homes and communities. Within the context of COVID-19, these inequalities have become more pronounced and the need to address them more […]

Journal article

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

31/08/2022

31 pages long

Free access through journal website

Breaking new ground: women’s employment in India’s NREGA, the pandemic lifeline

Keywords

Overview

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), in the last 15 years, has evolved as the world’s largest employer of the last resort. This social protection, specifically designed as a demand-driven automatic employment stabiliser to enable households to cope with livelihood shocks, offers 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to all […]

Journal article

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

07/12/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

New challenges for women workers in Brazil facing the wave of Industry 4.0 technologies

Keywords

Overview

This paper aims to understand how women’s work tends to be particularly affected by the new wave of Industry 4.0 technologies in Brazil and how public policies could actuate to reduce work gender inequalities throughout this process. We examine the 20 largest occupations for women and cross-check with estimates of automation for the Brazilian labour […]

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Keywords

Overview

In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

Journal article

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Politics of gender: challenges of being a feminist male women human rights defender in the north-eastern periphery of India

Keywords

Overview

Masculinity and manhood are prerequisite characteristics desired and demanded from every male individual born in Indian society. They are taught to become an ‘Ideal Indian Man’ from the time they are born. Critical reading of masculine attributes is an important facet of feminist discourse. Men who become a part of this quest and movement as […]

Journal article

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

23/05/2023

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

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

Keywords

Overview

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, […]

Journal article

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

Keywords

Overview

Historians have often highlighted the centrality of bazaars and the streets in urban public life in India as a space for politics and mobilisation. Historically, these bazaars and streets have been the domain of men, while spaces created by dominant urban planning logics like sequestered parks and enclosed marketplaces are marked by exclusion across various […]

Journal article

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

19/09/2024

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘There’s Nowhere For Us’: Spatial and scalar experiences of judgement amongst young women in the UK

Keywords

Public space and youth

Overview

This paper addresses girls and young women’s experiences of spatial forms of judgement in the public spaces of their local areas. It posits the feminist question: what is the relationship between judgement, gender, youth, and the material realities that make up the public realm? Findings are derived from two seven-week long peer research projects on public space […]