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Invisible threads

01/10/1994

6 pages long

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Two case studies from Guatemala and Bangladesh illustrate Oxfam’s Fair Trade programme. This seeks to foster relations between Southern producers and Northern consumers, ensuring the former fair livelihoods, and communicating the fair trade message to the latter. Multiple connecting threads lie at the heart of the programme. The vast majority of participants are women, because […]

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Towards international solidarity

01/10/1994

3 pages long

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Vanete Almeida, from Brazil, is one of eight Southern women activists who visited Britain in 1992 to meet with women from a variety of kindred organisations in the UK and Ireland, to share their experiences of work, discuss commonalities and differences in their vision, and find ways of cooperating and supporting each other. The following […]

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Breaking down the barriers

01/10/1994

4 pages long

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China remains a closed society and there is a lack of information in the North about its women. It is easy to see the denial of Chinese women’s rights without also appreciating their achievements. A 1994 summer school at the ‘Great Britain-China Centre’ aimed to forge understanding between Chinese and British women. It looked at […]

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Feminising the workplace

01/10/1994

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The number of Indian women in management positions is low, but rising. The author presents a ‘typical’ female manager and treatment by male counterparts, revealing a widespread struggle to reverse traditional gender roles. How can the situation be improved? Organisational culture is a huge problem and changing male attitudes is key. Working women need to […]

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Scotching myths

01/10/1994

3 pages long

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SEAD connects poor people, activists, academics and development workers in the North and South, by raising awareness of similarities and differences between their respective poverties. For example, women in both regions are exploited by labour markets. By talking together, they discover why and can then take action. SEAD’s work started in Scotland, where people were […]

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Breaking the patriarchal alliance

01/10/1994

8 pages long

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The South often regards northern aid with suspicion. But gender in development issues are appealing to women in both areas. Longwe argues that NGOs and women’s organisations must break patriarchal alliances. Southern Governments, development organisations, and bilateral agencies are reinforcing Northern patriarchal systems. Technical solutions are dangerous because they disempower women by working within unequal […]

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Southern women’s networks

01/10/1994

3 pages long

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Informal women’s networks often organise into self-aware groups. These can then become political tools as civil society disintegrates and decision-making processes exclude women. Diverse aims are a strength, but women’s groups are weakened by a lack of resources and communication channels, vital for unity with each other and Northern groups. Abantu, a women’s trainers network, […]

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Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

01/10/1994

7 pages long

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Implementing gender issues in multilaterals

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The World Bank is changing its personnel and policies to reflect its commitment to mainstreaming gender in all its work. Women’s empowerment is vital for long term economic growth, higher living standards and environmental sustainability. The Bank believes that removing barriers to women’s health and productivity will allow women to participate in income generating labour, […]

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The globalisation of the economy

01/10/1994

9 pages long

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Free trade benefits developed nations’ economies to the detriment of developing countries. Southern women’s organisations are uniting to challenge their negative experiences of the global economic system. They want access to policy-making institutions and communicative technologies, to bring about redistribution of wealth, equal access to resources, and their own empowerment. Yet the division is ‘winners/losers’ […]

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A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

01/10/1994

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A women’s approach to north-south co-operation

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Latin American women from all walks of life are organising against issues that oppress them, from debt and industrialisation to gender based violence. Entre Mujeres (Among Women) unites women’s NGOs to influence funding agencies and Governments, and to create ties between Southern and European women. This North-South co-operation needs to be extended. The South is […]

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