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The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

16/03/2026

23 pages long

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The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

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Overview

Women and girls with diverse disabilities have been largely neglected in the World Conference on Women (WCW) documents in the decades preceding the Fourth WCW in Beijing in 1995, which endorsed the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), and the subsequent five-yearly implementation reports up to and including the report for Beijing+30. Although the Beijing WCW […]

Case study

Integrating the Africa Women’s Protocol in the Zambia National Legal Policy and Processes: Example from Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA)

01/02/2008

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This paper illustrates one example of how Oxfam GB Southern Africa Region supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to popularise and lobby for the ratification, domestication, and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Zambia. It highlights […]

Research report

Women Leading Locally: Exploring women’s leadership in humanitarian action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

29/01/2020

5 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bengali, English

Keywords

Overview

This report examines women’s leadership in locally led humanitarian action with case studies from Bangladesh and South Sudan. Co-authored with two women’s organizations, Ashroy Foundation of Bangladesh and Rural Women for Development in South Sudan, it seeks to understand whether and how local humanitarian leadership (LHL) can promote or constrain women’s leadership. The report finds […]

Journal article

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

Keywords

Overview

In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]

Case study

Fighting for Women’s Rights in Chile: Supporting women workers and promoting women’s political participation

07/02/2008

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Despite being considered one of the most economically successful countries in Latin America, Chile is marked by high levels of social inequality. Women working in the agricultural and fish-farming sectors are particularly marginalised, and often work in unacceptable conditions, with little opportunity to challenge exploitative practices or to influence political decisions. This paper describes Oxfam […]

Journal article

Citizenship rights and women’s roles in development in post-conflict Nepal

25/11/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship rights and women’s roles in development in post-conflict Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Despite human rights abuses, the ten-year conflict in Nepal brought aspects of empowerment to women, changing their role in the family and community, as women became active outside the home, challenged the security forces, and began to assert their rights as citizens. Drawing on a research project into the participation of women in community development […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Indonesia: Evaluation of Papua women’s empowerment

26/03/2015

3 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in October 2013 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Papua women’s empowerment’ (PAWE) project. The overall objective of […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

Journal article

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

19/09/2024

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

Feminist research has highlighted both the emancipatory components of sex work on women’s lives, as well as the problematic nature of an overly romanticised reading of women’s sexual labour. In Ethiopian cities, including the capital, Addis Ababa, rural migrant women and returnee women from the Gulf States are confronted with layered forms of structural disadvantage […]

Journal article

Centring Indigenous Women’s Rights in Climate Justice: The importance of listening to the direct voices of Indigenous women

08/05/2025

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Centring Indigenous Women’s Rights in Climate Justice: The importance of listening to the direct voices of Indigenous women

Keywords

Overview

This article is written as a series of organic conversations between four women working in gender and climate change in south-east Asia. It is situated through storytelling of an Indigenous Bunong woman from Cambodia and a woman of Hmong ethnicity from Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). They discuss the inequitable effects of climate change on […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

16/03/2026

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

Keywords

Overview

Women and girls with diverse disabilities have been largely neglected in the World Conference on Women (WCW) documents in the decades preceding the Fourth WCW in Beijing in 1995, which endorsed the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), and the subsequent five-yearly implementation reports up to and including the report for Beijing+30. Although the Beijing WCW […]

Case study

Integrating the Africa Women’s Protocol in the Zambia National Legal Policy and Processes: Example from Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA)

01/02/2008

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper illustrates one example of how Oxfam GB Southern Africa Region supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to popularise and lobby for the ratification, domestication, and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Zambia. It highlights […]

Research report

Women Leading Locally: Exploring women’s leadership in humanitarian action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

29/01/2020

5 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bengali, English

Keywords

Overview

This report examines women’s leadership in locally led humanitarian action with case studies from Bangladesh and South Sudan. Co-authored with two women’s organizations, Ashroy Foundation of Bangladesh and Rural Women for Development in South Sudan, it seeks to understand whether and how local humanitarian leadership (LHL) can promote or constrain women’s leadership. The report finds […]

Journal article

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

Keywords

Overview

In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]

Case study

Fighting for Women’s Rights in Chile: Supporting women workers and promoting women’s political participation

07/02/2008

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Despite being considered one of the most economically successful countries in Latin America, Chile is marked by high levels of social inequality. Women working in the agricultural and fish-farming sectors are particularly marginalised, and often work in unacceptable conditions, with little opportunity to challenge exploitative practices or to influence political decisions. This paper describes Oxfam […]

Journal article

Citizenship rights and women’s roles in development in post-conflict Nepal

25/11/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship rights and women’s roles in development in post-conflict Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Despite human rights abuses, the ten-year conflict in Nepal brought aspects of empowerment to women, changing their role in the family and community, as women became active outside the home, challenged the security forces, and began to assert their rights as citizens. Drawing on a research project into the participation of women in community development […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Indonesia: Evaluation of Papua women’s empowerment

26/03/2015

3 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in October 2013 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Papua women’s empowerment’ (PAWE) project. The overall objective of […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

Journal article

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

19/09/2024

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

Feminist research has highlighted both the emancipatory components of sex work on women’s lives, as well as the problematic nature of an overly romanticised reading of women’s sexual labour. In Ethiopian cities, including the capital, Addis Ababa, rural migrant women and returnee women from the Gulf States are confronted with layered forms of structural disadvantage […]

Journal article

Centring Indigenous Women’s Rights in Climate Justice: The importance of listening to the direct voices of Indigenous women

08/05/2025

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Centring Indigenous Women’s Rights in Climate Justice: The importance of listening to the direct voices of Indigenous women

Keywords

Overview

This article is written as a series of organic conversations between four women working in gender and climate change in south-east Asia. It is situated through storytelling of an Indigenous Bunong woman from Cambodia and a woman of Hmong ethnicity from Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). They discuss the inequitable effects of climate change on […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

16/03/2026

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference

Keywords

Overview

Women and girls with diverse disabilities have been largely neglected in the World Conference on Women (WCW) documents in the decades preceding the Fourth WCW in Beijing in 1995, which endorsed the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), and the subsequent five-yearly implementation reports up to and including the report for Beijing+30. Although the Beijing WCW […]

Case study

Integrating the Africa Women’s Protocol in the Zambia National Legal Policy and Processes: Example from Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA)

01/02/2008

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper illustrates one example of how Oxfam GB Southern Africa Region supports the efforts of women’s-rights organisations to popularise and lobby for the ratification, domestication, and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Africa Women’s Protocol) in Zambia. It highlights […]

Research report

Women Leading Locally: Exploring women’s leadership in humanitarian action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

29/01/2020

5 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bengali, English

Keywords

Overview

This report examines women’s leadership in locally led humanitarian action with case studies from Bangladesh and South Sudan. Co-authored with two women’s organizations, Ashroy Foundation of Bangladesh and Rural Women for Development in South Sudan, it seeks to understand whether and how local humanitarian leadership (LHL) can promote or constrain women’s leadership. The report finds […]

Journal article

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

31/08/2022

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur: COVID-19, older women, and challenges for the implementation of the women’s economic empowerment agenda

Keywords

Overview

In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on […]

Case study

Fighting for Women’s Rights in Chile: Supporting women workers and promoting women’s political participation

07/02/2008

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Despite being considered one of the most economically successful countries in Latin America, Chile is marked by high levels of social inequality. Women working in the agricultural and fish-farming sectors are particularly marginalised, and often work in unacceptable conditions, with little opportunity to challenge exploitative practices or to influence political decisions. This paper describes Oxfam […]

Journal article

Citizenship rights and women’s roles in development in post-conflict Nepal

25/11/2011

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship rights and women’s roles in development in post-conflict Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Despite human rights abuses, the ten-year conflict in Nepal brought aspects of empowerment to women, changing their role in the family and community, as women became active outside the home, challenged the security forces, and began to assert their rights as citizens. Drawing on a research project into the participation of women in community development […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Indonesia: Evaluation of Papua women’s empowerment

26/03/2015

3 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in October 2013 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Papua women’s empowerment’ (PAWE) project. The overall objective of […]

Research report

Counting on Women’s Work Without Counting Women’s Work: Women’s unpaid work in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt

31/05/2019

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the MENA region, care is considered the main responsibility of women, and prioritized over their participation in the labour market. This report is based on an extensive review of existing literature on paid labour, gender-based division of household tasks, unpaid non-economic labour and economic labour, as well as the different contexts within which these […]

Journal article

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

19/09/2024

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

Feminist research has highlighted both the emancipatory components of sex work on women’s lives, as well as the problematic nature of an overly romanticised reading of women’s sexual labour. In Ethiopian cities, including the capital, Addis Ababa, rural migrant women and returnee women from the Gulf States are confronted with layered forms of structural disadvantage […]

Journal article

Centring Indigenous Women’s Rights in Climate Justice: The importance of listening to the direct voices of Indigenous women

08/05/2025

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

Centring Indigenous Women’s Rights in Climate Justice: The importance of listening to the direct voices of Indigenous women

Keywords

Overview

This article is written as a series of organic conversations between four women working in gender and climate change in south-east Asia. It is situated through storytelling of an Indigenous Bunong woman from Cambodia and a woman of Hmong ethnicity from Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). They discuss the inequitable effects of climate change on […]