Rights Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Grounding Women’s Land Rights: Towards equity and climate justice

20/09/2023

4 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This policy paper provides a critical examination of international commitments on women's land rights, evaluating progress and persistent challenges. It scrutinizes commitments made through the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Generation Equality Forum (GEF) Action Coalitions, revealing a substantial disconnect between ambitions and implementation.

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Briefing paper

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

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Issue briefing

Loss and Damage to Land: Voices from Asia

29/06/2023

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam listened to women and men from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste who shared their stories on how the climate crisis caused loss and damage to their lands and impacted their lives. The stories demonstrate that land ownership is a key factor in determining people’s eligibility to receive assistance to overcome loss and damage. […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework

26/05/2023

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Companies are increasingly engaging in Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs). To assess the quality of company-commissioned HRIAs, Oxfam has developed criteria that cover both process and content. They are key to ensuring that the research captures all relevant adverse risks to human rights, to support companies in understanding how their practices have an impact on […]

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Briefing paper

Threats to Human Rights Defenders: Six ways companies should respond

20/04/2023

2 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper details how companies should respond to the growing number of threats facing human rights defenders, offering six key recommendations. It offers a definition of human rights defenders, an introduction to the threats they face and an overview of the existing normative framework for the protection of defenders. While this paper is not a […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Inclusive Language Guide

13/03/2023

1 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English

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Language has the power to reinforce or deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty, inequality and suffering. As we are making commitments to decolonization in practice, it is important that we do not forget the role of language and communications in the context of inequality. The Inclusive Language Guide is a resource to support people […]

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Discussion paper

Price Interventions as a Part of Living Income Strategies: Lessons learned from piloting a price premium mechanism for basmati rice farmers in Pakistan

06/03/2023

1 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English

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Small-scale farmers produce many globally important products such as rice, cocoa, cotton and vanilla. Poverty is widespread among these farmers, and there is an urgent need to increase their incomes. A living income – what a household needs to afford a decent standard of living for all its members – is a human right. It […]

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Research report

Decolonize! What does it mean?

15/12/2022

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This document introduces the key concepts of decolonial theory that inform many current calls to decolonize. It provides examples from Latin America, Africa, and North America of how activists have envisioned or realized decolonial futures. These movements led by Indigenous Peoples, people of color, women, and queer people articulate and define the possibilities of decolonial […]

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Research report

Towards a Just Energy Transition: Implications for communities in lower- and middle-income countries

07/12/2022

4 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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More frequent or intense floods, heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and typhoons devastate people’s homes, livelihoods and the natural world. A clean energy transition is urgently needed to reduce carbon emissions and prevent the impacts worsening. Wealthy countries have the prime historic responsibility for the climate crisis and therefore for its mitigation. But as the clean energy […]

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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Regional Influencing Work in Horn, East and Central Africa: A case study of the Rights in Crisis and Extractive Industries initiatives

28/11/2022

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA) Regional Platform was established in 2016. Among the platform’s far-reaching portfolio are two influencing initiatives – the Rights in Crisis network and Extractive Industries programme. Despite their ambitious scope and the challenging context, this report confirms that Oxfam has contributed effectively to change at all levels. These changes […]

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