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Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

11 pages long

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Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

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Overview

Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

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Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

01/07/2003

8 pages long

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Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

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Overview

In a slum in Delhi, married women’s sense of well-being is based on their everyday experience of sexuality, motherhood, and work. While they may not be deliriously happy or content in their lives as married women, they attain respectability and status through marriage and childbearing, and exercise agency in speaking out against the oppressive conditions […]

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Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

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Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

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Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

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Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

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Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

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Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

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Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

01/11/2003

9 pages long

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Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

Keywords

Overview

Both governments and international donors now increasingly recognise women’s organisations as key actors in the promotion of women’s rights, democracy, and citizenship. Yet they remain, on the whole, poorly equipped for this role. The precarious, under-funded, and short-term existence of most women’s organisations does not equate with a flourishing civil society. If women’s organisations are […]

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Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/11/2004

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

Keywords

Overview

Schools – however temporary and improvised they may be – are often among the first community organisations to start functioning after a crisis. It is important that they set a high standard in encouraging the active participation of women in reconstruction and peacebuilding after conflict. This article examines the potential of women teachers for significant […]

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The African women’s protocol: a new dimension for women’s rights in Africa

01/11/2005

9 pages long

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The African women’s protocol: a new dimension for women’s rights in Africa

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Overview

This article discusses the development and agreement of the African Women’s Protocol, adopted by African Heads of State in 2003. The authors consider the experience of Oxfam GB in supporting the development and ratification of the Protocol. They make particular reference to the southern African countries of Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia. This article is […]

Journal article

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

01/11/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

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Overview

The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS joined forces with the POLICY project with the aim of developing an advocacy agenda on sexual and reproductive health rights, and access to care, treatment, and support for women living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Swaziland. The process began with an assessment of the concerns and […]

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Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

01/03/2007

13 pages long

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Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Keywords

Overview

Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as a result of weakened customary practice and social safety nets that […]

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Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

Keywords

Overview

Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women’s pages’ slotted […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

Journal article

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

01/07/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

Keywords

Overview

In a slum in Delhi, married women’s sense of well-being is based on their everyday experience of sexuality, motherhood, and work. While they may not be deliriously happy or content in their lives as married women, they attain respectability and status through marriage and childbearing, and exercise agency in speaking out against the oppressive conditions […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Journal article

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

Keywords

Overview

Both governments and international donors now increasingly recognise women’s organisations as key actors in the promotion of women’s rights, democracy, and citizenship. Yet they remain, on the whole, poorly equipped for this role. The precarious, under-funded, and short-term existence of most women’s organisations does not equate with a flourishing civil society. If women’s organisations are […]

Journal article

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/11/2004

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

Keywords

Overview

Schools – however temporary and improvised they may be – are often among the first community organisations to start functioning after a crisis. It is important that they set a high standard in encouraging the active participation of women in reconstruction and peacebuilding after conflict. This article examines the potential of women teachers for significant […]

Journal article

The African women’s protocol: a new dimension for women’s rights in Africa

01/11/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The African women’s protocol: a new dimension for women’s rights in Africa

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the development and agreement of the African Women’s Protocol, adopted by African Heads of State in 2003. The authors consider the experience of Oxfam GB in supporting the development and ratification of the Protocol. They make particular reference to the southern African countries of Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia. This article is […]

Journal article

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

01/11/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

Keywords

Overview

The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS joined forces with the POLICY project with the aim of developing an advocacy agenda on sexual and reproductive health rights, and access to care, treatment, and support for women living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Swaziland. The process began with an assessment of the concerns and […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Keywords

Overview

Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as a result of weakened customary practice and social safety nets that […]

Journal article

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

Keywords

Overview

Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women’s pages’ slotted […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

Keywords

Overview

Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

Journal article

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

01/07/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Marriage, well-being, and agency among women

Keywords

Overview

In a slum in Delhi, married women’s sense of well-being is based on their everyday experience of sexuality, motherhood, and work. While they may not be deliriously happy or content in their lives as married women, they attain respectability and status through marriage and childbearing, and exercise agency in speaking out against the oppressive conditions […]

Journal article

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Algerian women, citizenship, and the ‘Family Code’

Keywords

Overview

Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship. This article traces […]

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Journal article

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

01/11/2003

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fragmented feminisms: women’s organisations and citizenship in ‘transition’ in Poland

Keywords

Overview

Both governments and international donors now increasingly recognise women’s organisations as key actors in the promotion of women’s rights, democracy, and citizenship. Yet they remain, on the whole, poorly equipped for this role. The precarious, under-funded, and short-term existence of most women’s organisations does not equate with a flourishing civil society. If women’s organisations are […]

Journal article

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/11/2004

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Promoting a gender-just peace: the roles of women teachers in peacebuilding and reconstruction

Keywords

Overview

Schools – however temporary and improvised they may be – are often among the first community organisations to start functioning after a crisis. It is important that they set a high standard in encouraging the active participation of women in reconstruction and peacebuilding after conflict. This article examines the potential of women teachers for significant […]

Journal article

The African women’s protocol: a new dimension for women’s rights in Africa

01/11/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

The African women’s protocol: a new dimension for women’s rights in Africa

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the development and agreement of the African Women’s Protocol, adopted by African Heads of State in 2003. The authors consider the experience of Oxfam GB in supporting the development and ratification of the Protocol. They make particular reference to the southern African countries of Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia. This article is […]

Journal article

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

01/11/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Advocacy training by the international community of women living with HIV/AIDS

Keywords

Overview

The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS joined forces with the POLICY project with the aim of developing an advocacy agenda on sexual and reproductive health rights, and access to care, treatment, and support for women living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Swaziland. The process began with an assessment of the concerns and […]

Journal article

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

01/03/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security

Keywords

Overview

Property grabbing is a new form of gendered violence against women, threatening the security of women across Southern and East Africa. Forced evictions are often accompanied by further acts of violence, including physical and mental harassment, and abuse. Widows are particularly vulnerable, partly as a result of weakened customary practice and social safety nets that […]

Journal article

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

01/11/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

Keywords

Overview

Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women’s pages’ slotted […]