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Protected and Powerful: Putting Resources and Decision Making Power in the Hands of Women in Conflict

16/10/2018

2 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

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Evidence shows a strong link between gender equality and peace. Countries where women are empowered are vastly more secure. Helping women realize their rights in fragile countries helps prevent conflict and increases the likelihood of sustainable peace. This Oxfam Canada report examines the challenges women and girls face in conflict settings and recommends concrete actions […]

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Ripe for Change: Ending human suffering in supermarket supply chains

21/06/2018

8 documents

120 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Inequality is rampant across the global economy, and the agro-food sector is no exception. At the top, big supermarkets and other corporate food giants dominate global food markets, allowing them to squeeze value from vast supply chains that span the globe, while at the bottom the bargaining power of small-scale farmers and workers has been […]

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Even It Up: A blueprint for change

13/01/2016

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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Oxfam’s vision is of a world without poverty; Oxfam Cymru works with others to make this vision a reality here in Wales. But there is work to be done. Economic inequality and poverty blight this world and Wales is no exception, with women suffering the most. Meanwhile, climate change is playing havoc with the weather […]

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Even It Up: Scotland’s role in tackling poverty by reducing inequality at home and abroad – Oxfam’s policy priorities for the Scottish Parliament

08/10/2015

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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In this report, Oxfam Scotland urges the Scottish Parliament to use its powers to reduce inequality and poverty, both at home in Scotland and abroad. Around one in five people in Scotland live in poverty, and recently there has been a large increase in the number of people needing emergency food support. Oxfam argues that […]

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Privileges That Deny Rights: Extreme inequality and the hijacking of democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean

30/09/2015

4 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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Despite the fact that inequality and poverty are closely linked, for several decades multilateral organizations, government and even development agencies have prioritized economic growth and the fight against poverty as the objectives of their debates and policies, leaving inequality to one side. As a result, efforts to tackle inequality have been insufficient. Oxfam has calculated […]

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Even it Up: Time to end extreme inequality

29/10/2014

10 documents

140 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Economic inequality has reached extreme levels. From Ghana to Germany, Italy to Indonesia, the gap between rich and poor is widening. In 2013, seven out of 10 people lived in countries where economic inequality was worse than 30 years ago, and in 2014 Oxfam calculated that just 85 people owned as much wealth as the […]

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Lift Lives for Good: Actions to tackle inequality and climate change

26/12/2013

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s vision is of a just world without poverty and suffering. If people are empowered to help themselves, and to help others in their communities, a chain reaction of change can be set in motion. Oxfam calls this lifting lives for good. To spread that change and make it last, political solutions are needed to […]

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Indians Demand Equality for Women

23/09/2013

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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CLOSETHEGAP is Oxfam India’s innovative new campaign for equality. It challenges manifestations of inequality in all areas, such as property rights, health, education, the right tofood and nutrition, and budgetary allocations for marginalised groups. The campaign began by focusing on gender inequality, asking the general public the ways in which they would close the gap between men […]

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Growing a Better Future in Viet Nam: Expanding Rights, Voices and Choices for Small-scale Farmers

16/10/2012

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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Viet Nam has an enviable record of reducing hunger and poverty: over the past 20 years poverty levels have been reduced by more than half. Many people speak of an era of new opportunities and prosperity, yet the struggle to overcome poverty, and end hunger and gender injustice is not won. With one in five […]

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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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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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