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Briefing paper

The Private Sphere Trap: Women and the climate crisis in Iraq

10/06/2025

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19 pages long

Languages: English

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This Oxfam briefing paper examines the intersection of gender inequality and climate change in Iraq, focusing on the agricultural sector. Women in Iraq face systemic barriers that confine them to the "private sphere," limiting their participation in decision-making processes critical to climate adaptation and mitigation. Through qualitative research, including focus group discussions and key informant […]

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Briefing note

No Women, No Peace – A Snapshot of Oxfam’s Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Lessons and Opportunities

05/06/2025

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16 pages long

Languages: English

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This briefing paper summarizes the important lessons learned since 2018 by Oxfam Denmark and the wider Oxfam confederation while promoting the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda and supporting WPS programming in Burkina Faso, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Mali, Niger, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine and Yemen, including under the Danish […]

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Journal article

Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

08/05/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

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This is the introduction to the Special Issue on 'Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis'.

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Journal article

Women’s Land Tenure Security and Climate Action: Evidence, barriers to evidence, and the need for collaboration

08/05/2025

22 pages long

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Women’s Land Tenure Security and Climate Action: Evidence, barriers to evidence, and the need for collaboration

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The complex connections between women’s land tenure security (WLTS) and climate action need to be understood to inform investments and plans for mitigating climate change and achieving more resilient futures. We synthesise empirical evidence using a conceptual framework with three pathways through which improving WLTS could contribute to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience: long-term […]

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Journal article

Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling gender equality with tradition in Northern Uganda

08/05/2025

28 pages long

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Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling gender equality with tradition in Northern Uganda

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The Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda faces a tension in its post-conflict period: reconciling local peacebuilding approaches with national and international standards of gender equality. Women’s land rights lie at the heart of this struggle, with local practices of land management and dispute resolution frequently privileging men over women, conflicting with national statutes that promise […]

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Journal article

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

08/05/2025

18 pages long

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

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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 […]

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Journal article

Reclaiming Dignity: The struggle for recognition among women farmers and widows in Maharashtra

08/05/2025

6 pages long

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Reclaiming Dignity: The struggle for recognition among women farmers and widows in Maharashtra

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This essay deals with the struggle for recognition among women farmers and widows in Maharashtra, India.

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Journal article

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

08/05/2025

19 pages long

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Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

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As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically unaccustomed to these patterns of high variability are now struggling to adapt […]

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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

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

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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 […]

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Journal article

Flow, Food, and Flood: Embodied aquaculture in a climate-stressed world

08/05/2025

10 pages long

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Flow, Food, and Flood: Embodied aquaculture in a climate-stressed world

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This essay draws from a larger study that explores gender and social inclusion in small-scale aquaculture in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand, using a feminist political ecology (FPE) lens. Through qualitative research, we examine how fish farmers’ embodied experiences reveal the intersections of labour, emotional well-being, and food security within broader socioeconomic and environmental challenges. Hydropower […]

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