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Journal article

The marks of gender in the defence of human rights in Colombia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

The marks of gender in the defence of human rights in Colombia

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Overview

The role of women human rights defenders in Colombia is fundamental. The conditions of socioeconomic inequality, gender-based inequalities and discrimination, and the armed conflict have been complex scenarios in which women’s leadership in the defence of human rights and peace have played a leading role. The creation of diverse collective processes and social networks at […]

Journal article

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

Journal article

Navigating the City: Gendered work experiences in urban spaces

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Navigating the City: Gendered work experiences in urban spaces

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Overview

Women around the world experience much higher levels of fear of crime, profoundly impacting their perceptions of safety and influencing their interactions with public spaces. This fear prompts women to alter their behaviour, such as avoiding specific urban areas and public transport, especially after dark. While many amend their habits and limit their exposure to […]

Journal article

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

19/09/2024

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

Keywords

Overview

Extreme instances of COVID-19 policy-related violence against transgender (trans) communities in Latin America highlight the imperative to better understand how gender, power, and rights are entwined within public spaces. Peru is a useful vantage point to explore the intersections between gendered power asymmetries, violence, and access to safe public spaces, given the brief COVID-19 public […]

Journal article

Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

12/02/2025

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

Keywords

Overview

This paper is a preliminary attempt to examine the experience of two groups of women cleaning/domestic workers in two cities in Kerala grappling with vulnerabilities induced by natural disasters and the pandemic. The groups are similar to each other in several crucial respects, as assetless or asset-poor workers of oppressed caste social origins who perform […]

Journal article

Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

12/02/2025

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

Keywords

Overview

The impacts of climate change are not distributed equally around the globe, but in both the global North and South, they disproportionately affect poor and marginalised communities, exacerbating pre-existing intersectional inequalities. Women and marginalised groups have always been active in resilience-building efforts for the survival of their communities, and often at the forefront of place-based […]

Briefing paper

Change the Way You Do Business: Leading with women workers voices

18/03/2025

2 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This second briefing in the Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work series explores how systemic business practices perpetuate gender inequality through informal work, particularly in feminized sectors with large numbers of women workers, like tea and garments. Through women workers’ voices and case studies, the briefing reveals how patriarchal norms and inequitable practices exacerbate […]

Journal article

Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

08/05/2025

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

Keywords

Overview

Emerging evidence and growing global consensus in policy and advocacy spaces increasingly link secure and gender-equitable land tenure rights to more effective, just, and efficient action to address the urgent desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD) crisis. However, both women’s rights to land and efforts to combat DLDD are complex, requiring both conceptual and practical […]

Journal article

Unpacking feminist transformative leadership from the global South. Experiences from marginalised groups in Argentina

18/09/2025

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unpacking feminist transformative leadership from the global South. Experiences from marginalised groups in Argentina

Keywords

Overview

This article analyses the political trajectories of marginalised groups in Argentina, including young women, women with disabilities, Afro-descendant women, Indigenous women, women from the LBTIQ+ community and women from low-income communities. It has a twofold objective: to illuminate the distinct challenges these women face, and to explore the strategies and tools they utilise to navigate […]

Research report

Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Response to government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

13/02/2006

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam warmly welcomes the proposed introduction of a public sector duty to promote gender equality as the most significant change in legislation underpinning gender equality since the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts of the 1970s. In this submission, we address Oxfam’s key concerns, including: the importance of a strategic approach; issues of structural inequality […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The marks of gender in the defence of human rights in Colombia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

The marks of gender in the defence of human rights in Colombia

Keywords

Overview

The role of women human rights defenders in Colombia is fundamental. The conditions of socioeconomic inequality, gender-based inequalities and discrimination, and the armed conflict have been complex scenarios in which women’s leadership in the defence of human rights and peace have played a leading role. The creation of diverse collective processes and social networks at […]

Journal article

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

Journal article

Navigating the City: Gendered work experiences in urban spaces

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Navigating the City: Gendered work experiences in urban spaces

Keywords

Overview

Women around the world experience much higher levels of fear of crime, profoundly impacting their perceptions of safety and influencing their interactions with public spaces. This fear prompts women to alter their behaviour, such as avoiding specific urban areas and public transport, especially after dark. While many amend their habits and limit their exposure to […]

Journal article

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

19/09/2024

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

Keywords

Overview

Extreme instances of COVID-19 policy-related violence against transgender (trans) communities in Latin America highlight the imperative to better understand how gender, power, and rights are entwined within public spaces. Peru is a useful vantage point to explore the intersections between gendered power asymmetries, violence, and access to safe public spaces, given the brief COVID-19 public […]

Journal article

Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

12/02/2025

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

Keywords

Overview

This paper is a preliminary attempt to examine the experience of two groups of women cleaning/domestic workers in two cities in Kerala grappling with vulnerabilities induced by natural disasters and the pandemic. The groups are similar to each other in several crucial respects, as assetless or asset-poor workers of oppressed caste social origins who perform […]

Journal article

Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

12/02/2025

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

Keywords

Overview

The impacts of climate change are not distributed equally around the globe, but in both the global North and South, they disproportionately affect poor and marginalised communities, exacerbating pre-existing intersectional inequalities. Women and marginalised groups have always been active in resilience-building efforts for the survival of their communities, and often at the forefront of place-based […]

Briefing paper

Change the Way You Do Business: Leading with women workers voices

18/03/2025

2 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This second briefing in the Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work series explores how systemic business practices perpetuate gender inequality through informal work, particularly in feminized sectors with large numbers of women workers, like tea and garments. Through women workers’ voices and case studies, the briefing reveals how patriarchal norms and inequitable practices exacerbate […]

Journal article

Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

08/05/2025

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

Keywords

Overview

Emerging evidence and growing global consensus in policy and advocacy spaces increasingly link secure and gender-equitable land tenure rights to more effective, just, and efficient action to address the urgent desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD) crisis. However, both women’s rights to land and efforts to combat DLDD are complex, requiring both conceptual and practical […]

Journal article

Unpacking feminist transformative leadership from the global South. Experiences from marginalised groups in Argentina

18/09/2025

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unpacking feminist transformative leadership from the global South. Experiences from marginalised groups in Argentina

Keywords

Overview

This article analyses the political trajectories of marginalised groups in Argentina, including young women, women with disabilities, Afro-descendant women, Indigenous women, women from the LBTIQ+ community and women from low-income communities. It has a twofold objective: to illuminate the distinct challenges these women face, and to explore the strategies and tools they utilise to navigate […]

Research report

Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Response to government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

13/02/2006

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam warmly welcomes the proposed introduction of a public sector duty to promote gender equality as the most significant change in legislation underpinning gender equality since the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts of the 1970s. In this submission, we address Oxfam’s key concerns, including: the importance of a strategic approach; issues of structural inequality […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The marks of gender in the defence of human rights in Colombia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

The marks of gender in the defence of human rights in Colombia

Keywords

Overview

The role of women human rights defenders in Colombia is fundamental. The conditions of socioeconomic inequality, gender-based inequalities and discrimination, and the armed conflict have been complex scenarios in which women’s leadership in the defence of human rights and peace have played a leading role. The creation of diverse collective processes and social networks at […]

Journal article

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

Keywords

Overview

Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

Journal article

Navigating the City: Gendered work experiences in urban spaces

19/09/2024

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Navigating the City: Gendered work experiences in urban spaces

Keywords

Overview

Women around the world experience much higher levels of fear of crime, profoundly impacting their perceptions of safety and influencing their interactions with public spaces. This fear prompts women to alter their behaviour, such as avoiding specific urban areas and public transport, especially after dark. While many amend their habits and limit their exposure to […]

Journal article

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

19/09/2024

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru

Keywords

Overview

Extreme instances of COVID-19 policy-related violence against transgender (trans) communities in Latin America highlight the imperative to better understand how gender, power, and rights are entwined within public spaces. Peru is a useful vantage point to explore the intersections between gendered power asymmetries, violence, and access to safe public spaces, given the brief COVID-19 public […]

Journal article

Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

12/02/2025

21 pages long

Free access through journal website

Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

Keywords

Overview

This paper is a preliminary attempt to examine the experience of two groups of women cleaning/domestic workers in two cities in Kerala grappling with vulnerabilities induced by natural disasters and the pandemic. The groups are similar to each other in several crucial respects, as assetless or asset-poor workers of oppressed caste social origins who perform […]

Journal article

Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

12/02/2025

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

Keywords

Overview

The impacts of climate change are not distributed equally around the globe, but in both the global North and South, they disproportionately affect poor and marginalised communities, exacerbating pre-existing intersectional inequalities. Women and marginalised groups have always been active in resilience-building efforts for the survival of their communities, and often at the forefront of place-based […]

Briefing paper

Change the Way You Do Business: Leading with women workers voices

18/03/2025

2 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This second briefing in the Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work series explores how systemic business practices perpetuate gender inequality through informal work, particularly in feminized sectors with large numbers of women workers, like tea and garments. Through women workers’ voices and case studies, the briefing reveals how patriarchal norms and inequitable practices exacerbate […]

Journal article

Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

08/05/2025

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

Keywords

Overview

Emerging evidence and growing global consensus in policy and advocacy spaces increasingly link secure and gender-equitable land tenure rights to more effective, just, and efficient action to address the urgent desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD) crisis. However, both women’s rights to land and efforts to combat DLDD are complex, requiring both conceptual and practical […]

Journal article

Unpacking feminist transformative leadership from the global South. Experiences from marginalised groups in Argentina

18/09/2025

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

Unpacking feminist transformative leadership from the global South. Experiences from marginalised groups in Argentina

Keywords

Overview

This article analyses the political trajectories of marginalised groups in Argentina, including young women, women with disabilities, Afro-descendant women, Indigenous women, women from the LBTIQ+ community and women from low-income communities. It has a twofold objective: to illuminate the distinct challenges these women face, and to explore the strategies and tools they utilise to navigate […]

Research report

Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Response to government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

13/02/2006

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam warmly welcomes the proposed introduction of a public sector duty to promote gender equality as the most significant change in legislation underpinning gender equality since the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts of the 1970s. In this submission, we address Oxfam’s key concerns, including: the importance of a strategic approach; issues of structural inequality […]