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‘I, Black Woman, Resist!’

01/02/1995

4 pages long

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Alzira Rufino, feminist and activist, founded the Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra, the Black Women’s House of Culture, which was the first black women’s centre in Brazil. The centre was opened in the city of Santos in 1990 and is run by the Black Women’s Collective of Baixada Santista, with funding support from War […]

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Challenging cultural constraints: a personal testimony

01/02/1995

5 pages long

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Challenging cultural constraints: a personal testimony

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DISHA is an Oxfam partner in Uttah Pradesh, India. It supports grassroots women’s organisations to take practical steps against cultural practices that oppress them. Below is the story of a Muslim housewife who accepts her position, but then starts working for DISHA and abandons her burkha. Despite opposition from village men, religious leaders and her […]

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Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

01/02/1995

2 pages long

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Culture and the law in Islam women living under Muslim law

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This article argues that for the human rights movement to become international, it must start by appreciating local and national contexts. The expectations and experiences of Muslim women are hugely diverse, depending on the culture they are born into. ‘Women Living Under Muslin Law’ unites women from different countries to organise for change according to […]

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Book

Rights Now! World poverty and the Oxfam campaign

01/01/1995

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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One thousand million people in the world live in poverty. They are denied basic rights which people in rich countries take for granted – such as the right to clean water, or a home, or enough to eat. This booklet explains why so many people are poor and powerless. It shows what some of them […]

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Book

Societies in Transition

01/01/1995

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

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Civil society

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In this book, the theme of transition is treated in an innovative and holistic way to include not only the changeover to democracy and free-market economics in former Eastern-bloc countries, but other forms of major social and personal transformation, such as change resulting from armed conflict, and the process of ageing. The emphasis is on […]

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Book

Women and Culture

01/01/1995

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

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Throughout the world, cultural norms determine a view of women as subordinate to men, and provide a rationale for denial of women’s economic and political rights. This collection of essays in the Focus on Gender series explores the issues of cultural traditions and beliefs, and their relation to gender and development. Topics discussed in this […]

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Book

Women and Rights

01/01/1995

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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The UN Human Rights Conference in 1993 proclaimed that ‘Women’s rights are human rights’. This book in the Focus on Gender series explores issues of women’s rights including: the legal background and history of human rights legislation

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Book

Words Into Action: Basic rights and the campaign against world poverty

01/01/1995

5 documents

113 pages long

Languages: English

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Words into Action looks at some of the main obstacles which prevent poor people from claiming their rights. It tells of the hard-won successes of people who are working at all levels, from village council to national government, for a better life for themselves, their families, and their communities.

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Book

Power and Process

01/01/1995

4 documents

232 pages long

Languages: English

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In 1992 Oxfam launched the Women’s Linking Project, an innovative three-year project designed to bring women together worldwide to share their experiences of working for change. The culmination of the project was an international conference for staff from Oxfam and other development agencies, and representatives of partner organisations and Southern women’s organisations. This book reflects […]

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Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

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Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

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We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

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