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Can Twitter help drive policy change? Photo: Red Scarf by Gregory Jordan is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Can Twitter help drive policy change?

Rodrigo Barahona, Virginia Vaquera and Patricia Corcuera

May 17th, 2019 Active citizenship, Gender, Influencing, Violence Against Women and Girls

Oxfam Intermón has supported allies using digital actions to put issues on the political agenda. Rodrigo Barahona, Virginia Vaquera and Patricia Corcuera share seven critical success factors. In recent years …

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Digital AdvocacyDigital CampaigningGender Based ViolenceTwitter
Daw Ma Khine Oo is a leader who advocates for community needs and supports others when their rights are infringed. Photo: Dustin Barter/Oxfam

Why care is a political act

Shawna Wakefield and Heather Cole

May 9th, 2019 Active citizenship, Gender, Inequality, Influencing

Facilitators Shawna Wakefield and Heather Cole outline why self and collective care is fundamental to social justice, and how individuals and organizations can lead by example. There are many ways …

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Behaviour changeCareResilience
Campaigning outside the UK Houses of Parliament. Oxfam has been calling on the UK government to immediately suspend its arms exports to Saudi Arabia. With others, we are now mounting a legal challenge. Photo: Andy Hall.

Law as a tool to empower and achieve change

Noelie Coudurier, Sreetama Gupta Bhaya and Laura Gyte

April 1st, 2019 Active citizenship, Climate Change, Governance, Influencing, Protection, Rights, Tax

Noélie Coudurier, Sreetama Gupta Bhaya and Laura Gyte share a wealth of examples demonstrating how law can help drive positive change. As campaigners, we can feel ambivalent about law. As …

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Arms Trade TreatyGroundtruthingLegalLitigationTax havens
Demonstration outside Barcelona City Hall, one of many public actions calling for Tax Havens Free Zones. Photo: Oxfam Intermon

Tax Havens Free Zones. Where think global, act local is more than just a slogan.

Rodrigo Barahona and Susana Ruiz

March 25th, 2019 Active citizenship, Inequality, Influencing, Tax

Rodrigo Barahona and Susana Ruiz describe how the Tax Havens Free Zones initiative is gathering momentum in the fight against inequality and poverty. When large companies and wealthy individuals divert …

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ProcurementTax havensTax Havens Free ZonesTax justice
Female parliamentarians in Ghana attend a gender budgeting training session organised by Oxfam partners, SEND Ghana. Photo: Nana Kofi Acquah/Oxfam.

New voices tearing up outdated economic norms and practices

Kwesi Obeng

March 21st, 2019 Active citizenship, Economics, Gender, Inequality, Tax

Young women in Ghana are calling out the double standards that put them at an economic disadvantage.  Kwesi W Obeng draws parallels with Oxfam’s work on tax and gender. Some …

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Gender budgetingGhanaTax justice
A woman holds a banner while marching through the streets of Lima, Peru. Photo: Percy Ramírez / Oxfam America

Using elections to amplify people’s voices

Rodrigo Barahona and Isabel Crabtree-Condor

February 12th, 2019 Active citizenship, Influencing, Participation and Leadership

Elections can be an important influencing opportunity for people living in poverty. Rodrigo Barahona and Isabel Crabtree-Condor share what Oxfam has learned from our work in four countries. Elections are a …

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AdvocacyDigitalElectionsPolicy influencingPolitics
Defending Civic Freedoms and Human Rights. Photo: © 2013 Remar Zamora, Courtesy of Photoshare.

Should companies act when civic freedoms are under attack?

Mauricio Lazala and Ana Zbona

January 21st, 2019 Active citizenship, General, Influencing, Private sector, Rights

Mauricio Lazala and Ana Zbona, from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, discuss how companies can help support civic freedoms and human rights defenders in the countries where they …

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ActivismBusinessCivic freedomsCivil SocietyHuman rightsHuman rights defenders
Sakshi Rai speaking at the round table event: 'Towards an Asian Narrative on Tax Justice and Financial Transparency'. Credit: CBGA

Motivating people to take action: towards an Asian narrative on tax justice and financial transparency

Amy Croome

December 6th, 2018 Active citizenship, Economics, Inequality, Influencing, Tax

Amy Croome, from Oxfam GB, interviews fellow researchers, and civil society actors, on approaches, challenges, and opportunities to tax justice in Asia. For two days academics, activists and civil society …

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AsiaFinancial TransparencyFiscal justiceTax justice
Citizen activists. Women protest outside the National Constitutional Assembly for Tunisia to demand that women make up 50% of electoral lists. Amel Alariqi/Oxfam

Making change happen

Emily Gillingham

November 30th, 2018 Active citizenship, Influencing, Innovation, Participation and Leadership, Rights

Oxfam GB’s Head of Publishing, Emily Gillingham, explains why and how we developed a free, online course for changemakers, and what the early results show. “I’m hoping this course will …

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ActivismHow Change HappensOnline learning
Young feminists march to end violence against women in Montevideo, Uruguay, 2017. Credit: UN Women/Sahand Minae.

Young feminists driving change

Imogen Davies

November 30th, 2018 Active citizenship, Gender & Development Journal, Participation and Leadership, Rights, Violence Against Women and Girls, Youth

Imogen Davies, Oxfam GB’s Global Adviser on Youth, Gender & Active Citizenship, and co-editor of the latest issue of Gender & Development, describes the political approaches young feminist movements are taking …

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FeminismIntersectionalityYoung feministsYouth as active citizens
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