This episode hosts a conversation recorded last September 2020 during a virtual encounter around Creating Feminist Futures. María Faciolince, our host and moderator, is joined by three visionary feminists from …
Girls Not Brides – weaving the ‘evidence quilt’ for gender transformative law reform
Patricia Miranda, Anam Parvez Butt and Jeanette DulawanPositive prospects amid the pandemic Girls have been given much reason to hope in the Philippines. This November, a historic first, the Senate unanimously approved the Girls Not Brides bill, which proposes to criminalize child marriage. Now the House of Representatives must …
Women’s land rights on paper are not enough
Pubudini WickramaratneLand is critical to our daily lives. It is intrinsically linked with our identity, dignity, livelihoods, food, housing, education and health. Secure land rights are essential to sustainable and equitable …
Counting care: Everything you need to know about the new Household Care Survey toolkit
Amber Parkes‘What doesn’t get measured doesn’t get seen’. I’ve heard this phrase so many times but never has it felt truer than when it comes to unpaid care and domestic work. …
Role models for the next generation: women and democracy in Morocco
Nikki van der GaagWe arrive in the village in Larache province in Morocco via several wrong turns and a long bumpy earth road that wasn’t really a road at all, to find a …
Gender justice online: Changing ourselves, our organisations and our world
Jemma StringerOxfam has teamed up with Disaster Ready to provide a new online course on how Gender Justice impacts humanitarian and development work. Jemma Stringer introduces why a course such as …
St. Valentine’s Day: Celebrating Healthy Relationships and Challenging Violence
Bethan CansfieldThis Saint Valentine’s Day, Bethan Cansfield and Lourdes Montero look at what it means to have a healthy relationship and how unhealthy ones may be formed. oday, many couples, in …
Women leading in the peace
Caroline SweetmanAccording to World Bank estimates of September 2016, two billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. By 2030, the share of global …
Outed “locker room talk” is strengthening global movement to stop violence against women
Nikki van der GaagOxfam GB’s Director of Women’s Rights and Gender Justice Nikki van de Gaag, explores how the events surrounding the US Presidential campaign can help end violence against women around the world. …