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Briefing note

Still Waiting For Change: Making the political transition work for women in Yemen

24/09/2012

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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Overview

Women played a key role in Yemen’s 2011 popular uprising, but almost a year on they are still waiting for change. This report draws on research from a series of focus groups with Yemeni women, and calls on the Government of Yemen and the international community to support the humanitarian response, and help ensure women […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

The Factory Floor Guide to Corporate Accountability: Seeking redress for labour rights violations in global supply chains

01/09/2012

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide support to workers and worker organisations who are employed or operate within global supply chains and have had difficulty achieving fulfilment of their rights through local or national means of redress alone. It aims to complement, but not replace, local advocacy by providing some basic information about […]

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Briefing note

Sustainable mining: managing corruption risks and revenue transparency

21/08/2012

1 documents

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

Oxfam Australia and the Melbourne Business School (Asia Pacific Social Impact Leadership Centre) partnered to host our third annual sustainable mining symposium. The symposium was held in May 2012. This year, the focus was on managing corruption risks and revenue transparency in the extractives industry.

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Journal article

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

The role of religion in women’s campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

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Legal reform is necessary but not sufficient to realise women’s rights. This paper compares two campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria: attempts to domesticate the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in federal law, which resulted in defeat of the bill in 2007, and a successful campaign to […]

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Campaign report

The Food Transformation: Harnessing consumer power to create a fair food future

18/07/2012

4 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

The food system is a complex web of people, businesses, organizations and governments involved in the production, distribution, sale and consumption of food. Irrespective of who we are or where we are on the planet, the food we eat is made available by this global food system. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, […]

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Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and girls: Raising Her Voice in Honduras

16/07/2012

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

One woman is killed every 18 hours in Honduras, but fewer than one in five cases are investigated. Such large-scale human rights abuses and appalling levels of impunity mean that tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) is central to the Raising Her Voice Honduras governance programme. This paper is a snapshot of the work […]

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Case study

Case Study: Women’s Rights in Egypt

01/07/2012

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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Women's rights

Overview

The uprising in Egypt which began on 25 January 2011 called for freedom, dignity and social justice. It was full of potential opportunities and challenges for Egyptians who had been deprived of their political, social and economic rights. The revolution gave women a sense of freedom and empowerment, and seemed like the perfect opportunity to […]

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Journal article

Introduction: development, children, and protection

01/06/2012

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This paper introduces the special issue. It first places the protection of children in the context of development studies. It goes on to outline current international trends in the protection of children and raises questions about them. Finally, it introduces the papers in the issue and highlights how they speak to the questions raised. This […]

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Case study

Where Does the Money Go: Citizen participation in Turkana County, Kenya

30/05/2012

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This case study is about Oxfam’s work with the Turkana people, who live in one of Kenya’s poorest counties. Kenya has a system of devolved budgets, which in theory gives local people the opportunity to become involved in local authority funding of community projects. However, initial surveys found that in fact few people knew about […]

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Case study

Missing Medicines in Malawi: Campaigning against stock-outs of essential drugs

30/05/2012

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. The government has introduced some measures to improve the health of its people, but a number of major problems remain. One of these is the lack of essential medicines in government health clinics – known as ‘stock-outs’. These medicines should be free to poor people, […]

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