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Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

01/05/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

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Overview

Worldwide, women are harnessing the power of mainstream media to change minds and hearts about women’s human rights. In particular, they are focusing on ending violence against women as depicted in the media. Violence against women is here understood in two ways – not only as violence against women in society, but as violence committed […]

Research report

Gender Profile – Iraq: A situation analysis on gender equality and women’s empowerment in Iraq

13/12/2018

1 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women in Iraq have endured many years of repression, as a result of a strong conservative culture, economic sanctions and armed conflicts. Iraqi women today suffer from insufficient educational opportunities and healthcare and limited access to the labor market, as well as high levels of violence and inequality. The country is currently in a phase […]

Journal article

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

01/02/1996

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

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Overview

CEPAM is an Ecuadorian women’s NGO, which has an integrated approach to work with poor urban women on health issues, legal advice, and group formation, based on a gender analysis of life in the area. This account of its work in a poor urban settlement in Guayaquil describes how women came to understand that their […]

Journal article

Women in Ugandan local government: the impact of affirmative action

01/11/2003

11 pages long

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Women in Ugandan local government: the impact of affirmative action

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Overview

Uganda has introduced affirmative action to ensure that women are represented on the various Councils which govern village affairs. This article asks what has changed as a result of women’s presence on the Councils. Both women and men felt that women had not significantly influenced Local Council planning and budget decisions. They felt this was […]

Journal article

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

12/11/2013

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

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Overview

Despite the United Nation’s landmark Security Council Resolution on women, peace and security in 2000 which highlighted the importance of women’s participation in peace-building, only one in 40 peace treaty signatories over the last 25 years has been a woman. Yet evidence from non-government organisations and women’s rights organisations shows that women are active agents of peace, resolving conflicts […]

Journal article

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

12/11/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

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Overview

Although modern-day armed conflict is horrific for women, recent conflict and post-conflict periods have provided women with new platforms and opportunities to bring about change. The roles of women alter and expand during conflict as they participate in the struggles and take on more economic responsibilities and duties as heads of households. The trauma of […]

Research report

Young Couples in Good Times and in Bad: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls among young Tunisians in peri-urban areas

12/07/2017

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Around half of women in Tunisia have experienced some form of violence in their life. Over 90% of the population thinks women should be discreet to avoid violence in public spaces. From the perspective of Oxfam and dozens of women’s rights organisations, social norms that legitimise gender inequality and violence are rooted in the deeply […]

Book

Women and Leadership

01/01/2000

1 documents

91 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

As a given, in no country do Women participate in political leadership on a par with men. This collection of writings explores women’s own strategies for developing or initiating leadership by women around the world. Women have created thousands of vibrant, visionary organisations of their own, yet they remain absent from the key political and […]

Journal article

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

13/07/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Water security has become the new buzzword for water and development programmes in the rural South. The concept has potential to focus policymakers and practitioners on the inequalities and injustices that lie behind lack of access to affordable, safe, and clean water. The concept of women’s empowerment also provides an opportunity to do this. However, […]

Book

Women and Economic Policy

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The articles in Women and Economic Policy are centred around two main themes: macroeconomic policy and gender relations; and income generation projects and women’s empowerment. In many countries of the South, the introduction of structural adjustment policies to address the problem of mounting international debt has had a profoundly damaging effect on poor women and […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

01/05/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Worldwide, women are harnessing the power of mainstream media to change minds and hearts about women’s human rights. In particular, they are focusing on ending violence against women as depicted in the media. Violence against women is here understood in two ways – not only as violence against women in society, but as violence committed […]

Research report

Gender Profile – Iraq: A situation analysis on gender equality and women’s empowerment in Iraq

13/12/2018

1 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women in Iraq have endured many years of repression, as a result of a strong conservative culture, economic sanctions and armed conflicts. Iraqi women today suffer from insufficient educational opportunities and healthcare and limited access to the labor market, as well as high levels of violence and inequality. The country is currently in a phase […]

Journal article

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

01/02/1996

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

Keywords

Overview

CEPAM is an Ecuadorian women’s NGO, which has an integrated approach to work with poor urban women on health issues, legal advice, and group formation, based on a gender analysis of life in the area. This account of its work in a poor urban settlement in Guayaquil describes how women came to understand that their […]

Journal article

Women in Ugandan local government: the impact of affirmative action

01/11/2003

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women in Ugandan local government: the impact of affirmative action

Keywords

Overview

Uganda has introduced affirmative action to ensure that women are represented on the various Councils which govern village affairs. This article asks what has changed as a result of women’s presence on the Councils. Both women and men felt that women had not significantly influenced Local Council planning and budget decisions. They felt this was […]

Journal article

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

12/11/2013

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

Keywords

Overview

Despite the United Nation’s landmark Security Council Resolution on women, peace and security in 2000 which highlighted the importance of women’s participation in peace-building, only one in 40 peace treaty signatories over the last 25 years has been a woman. Yet evidence from non-government organisations and women’s rights organisations shows that women are active agents of peace, resolving conflicts […]

Journal article

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

12/11/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

Keywords

Overview

Although modern-day armed conflict is horrific for women, recent conflict and post-conflict periods have provided women with new platforms and opportunities to bring about change. The roles of women alter and expand during conflict as they participate in the struggles and take on more economic responsibilities and duties as heads of households. The trauma of […]

Research report

Young Couples in Good Times and in Bad: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls among young Tunisians in peri-urban areas

12/07/2017

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Around half of women in Tunisia have experienced some form of violence in their life. Over 90% of the population thinks women should be discreet to avoid violence in public spaces. From the perspective of Oxfam and dozens of women’s rights organisations, social norms that legitimise gender inequality and violence are rooted in the deeply […]

Book

Women and Leadership

01/01/2000

1 documents

91 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

As a given, in no country do Women participate in political leadership on a par with men. This collection of writings explores women’s own strategies for developing or initiating leadership by women around the world. Women have created thousands of vibrant, visionary organisations of their own, yet they remain absent from the key political and […]

Journal article

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

13/07/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Water security has become the new buzzword for water and development programmes in the rural South. The concept has potential to focus policymakers and practitioners on the inequalities and injustices that lie behind lack of access to affordable, safe, and clean water. The concept of women’s empowerment also provides an opportunity to do this. However, […]

Book

Women and Economic Policy

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The articles in Women and Economic Policy are centred around two main themes: macroeconomic policy and gender relations; and income generation projects and women’s empowerment. In many countries of the South, the introduction of structural adjustment policies to address the problem of mounting international debt has had a profoundly damaging effect on poor women and […]

Showing 498 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

01/05/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using the master’s tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women

Keywords

Overview

Worldwide, women are harnessing the power of mainstream media to change minds and hearts about women’s human rights. In particular, they are focusing on ending violence against women as depicted in the media. Violence against women is here understood in two ways – not only as violence against women in society, but as violence committed […]

Research report

Gender Profile – Iraq: A situation analysis on gender equality and women’s empowerment in Iraq

13/12/2018

1 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Women in Iraq have endured many years of repression, as a result of a strong conservative culture, economic sanctions and armed conflicts. Iraqi women today suffer from insufficient educational opportunities and healthcare and limited access to the labor market, as well as high levels of violence and inequality. The country is currently in a phase […]

Journal article

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

01/02/1996

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women with Self-esteem are Healthy Women’: community development in an urban settlement of Guayaquil

Keywords

Overview

CEPAM is an Ecuadorian women’s NGO, which has an integrated approach to work with poor urban women on health issues, legal advice, and group formation, based on a gender analysis of life in the area. This account of its work in a poor urban settlement in Guayaquil describes how women came to understand that their […]

Journal article

Women in Ugandan local government: the impact of affirmative action

01/11/2003

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women in Ugandan local government: the impact of affirmative action

Keywords

Overview

Uganda has introduced affirmative action to ensure that women are represented on the various Councils which govern village affairs. This article asks what has changed as a result of women’s presence on the Councils. Both women and men felt that women had not significantly influenced Local Council planning and budget decisions. They felt this was […]

Journal article

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

12/11/2013

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

From the private to the public sphere: new research on women’s participation in peace-building

Keywords

Overview

Despite the United Nation’s landmark Security Council Resolution on women, peace and security in 2000 which highlighted the importance of women’s participation in peace-building, only one in 40 peace treaty signatories over the last 25 years has been a woman. Yet evidence from non-government organisations and women’s rights organisations shows that women are active agents of peace, resolving conflicts […]

Journal article

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

12/11/2013

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

Keywords

Overview

Although modern-day armed conflict is horrific for women, recent conflict and post-conflict periods have provided women with new platforms and opportunities to bring about change. The roles of women alter and expand during conflict as they participate in the struggles and take on more economic responsibilities and duties as heads of households. The trauma of […]

Research report

Young Couples in Good Times and in Bad: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls among young Tunisians in peri-urban areas

12/07/2017

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Around half of women in Tunisia have experienced some form of violence in their life. Over 90% of the population thinks women should be discreet to avoid violence in public spaces. From the perspective of Oxfam and dozens of women’s rights organisations, social norms that legitimise gender inequality and violence are rooted in the deeply […]

Book

Women and Leadership

01/01/2000

1 documents

91 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender mainstreaming

Overview

As a given, in no country do Women participate in political leadership on a par with men. This collection of writings explores women’s own strategies for developing or initiating leadership by women around the world. Women have created thousands of vibrant, visionary organisations of their own, yet they remain absent from the key political and […]

Journal article

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

13/07/2017

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reframing women’s empowerment in water security programmes in Western Nepal

Keywords

Overview

Water security has become the new buzzword for water and development programmes in the rural South. The concept has potential to focus policymakers and practitioners on the inequalities and injustices that lie behind lack of access to affordable, safe, and clean water. The concept of women’s empowerment also provides an opportunity to do this. However, […]

Book

Women and Economic Policy

01/01/1993

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The articles in Women and Economic Policy are centred around two main themes: macroeconomic policy and gender relations; and income generation projects and women’s empowerment. In many countries of the South, the introduction of structural adjustment policies to address the problem of mounting international debt has had a profoundly damaging effect on poor women and […]