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Students from sewing class, partner AFPF in Tunisia. City of Methuia. Photo: Lotte Ærsøe

Ten lessons on entrepreneurship and job creation in the MENA region

Shekhar Anand

March 26th, 2020 Inequality, Women's Economic Empowerment, Youth employment

Job creation in the MENA Region, the context and challenges   The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region face unemployment as a common challenge. The youth population is growing but …

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Decent workEconomic justiceFemale entrepreneursMENA Regionwomen's rightsworkYouth Unemployment
Explaining UK wage rates.

The gap widens between the UKs national living wage and the real living wage

Amy Hill

November 11th, 2016 Inequality, Living wage

It is ever more clear that employment is not an automatic route out of poverty in the UK. In this blog, Amy Hill outlines the difference between the national living …

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Decent workInequalityLiving standardsLiving wageNational living wageThe real living wageUK povertyUK wages

‘Domestic work cannot be the only destiny’: Interview with FENATRAD

Amy Moran

September 26th, 2016 Gender, Women's Economic Empowerment

At the recent AWID Forum in Brazil, Oxfam talked to Creuza Oliveira, President of the National Federation of Domestic Workers (FENATRAD) of Brazil. Below she comments on the importance of …

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The Oxfam partners meet up at AWID 2016.

Womens rights in Mexico: Interview with ProDESC and ACASAC

Amy Moran

September 25th, 2016 Gender

Recently at the AWID Forum 2016 we interviewed two of Oxfam Mexico’s partners to talk about the challenges and opportunities they face as women’s rights organisations in the country. We …

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Decent work for low paid workers: a job to be done

Francis Stuart

September 7th, 2016 Inequality, Living wage

As ‘Decent work for all’ is one of the SDGs, understanding what decent work means in context is important. Here, Francis Stuart talks about the new publication ‘Decent work for …

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