Gender Justice blog

We’ve come a long way baby… or have we?

17 May 2013 | Irit Tamir | Blog channel: Gender Justice

While gender equality is enshrined in the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights, in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and in legislation in most countries,...

In sub-Saharan Africa nearly 80% of women workers are in vulnerable employment. Photo: Oxfam

This mother's day

12 May 2013 | Shawna Wakefield | Blog channel: Gender Justice

This mother’s day, instead of valorizing moms with well-intended, but often artificial appreciation for the vast amounts of unpaid labor that women do every day, I would rather we all take a hard...

Photo of a woman holding a child and herding a cow.

Broken promises: rural women hit hardest by corporate land deals

9 April 2013 | Marc Wegerif | Blog channel: Gender Justice

Small-scale women farmers are the backbone of Africa's food system, but, as corporations buy up huge swathes of rural land, they are losing out at every turn. Marc Wegerif introduces a new Oxfam...

What will it take to end violence against women?

13 March 2013 | Daniela Rosche | Blog channel: Gender Justice

Fresh from the Commission on the Status of Women meeting in New York, Daniela Rosche argues that there is too much rhetoric and not enough action in the struggle to end violence against women.

Dear women’s rights movements, thank you!

8 March 2013 | Shawna Wakefield | Blog channel: Gender Justice

This blog was co-written by Jenny Enarsson, our former Gender justice Lead, and Shawna Wakefield, our current Gender Justice Lead.

Helping Syrian refugees in a male-dominated environment

8 March 2013 | Caroline Gluck | 3 | Blog channel: Gender Justice

Amid a sea of male construction and site workers in Jordan’s sprawling Zaatari desert camp, Oxfam’s female engineer Farah Al-Basha stands out from the crowd.The energetic 27-year-old Jordanian joined...

Ending women's inequality is key to tackling hunger. Who cares?

4 March 2013 | Lauren Ravon | Blog channel: Gender Justice

A new UN report released today on ‘Women’s Rights and the Right to Food’ puts the spotlight on the hugely disproportionate amount of time that women spend caring for their family.

Are women from Mars?

1 March 2013 | Conor Costello | 2 | Blog channel: Gender Justice

Tuesday’s Behind The Brands campaign launch kicked off with a call for Mars, Mondelez International and Nestle to stop ignoring the women who are working in their cocoa supply chains. Between them,...

Oxfam stands – and dances! – with one billion people on February 14th to demand an end to violence against women and girls

14 February 2013 | Chloe Safier | 1 | Blog channel: Gender Justice

On February 14th, people around the world will be rising up together to protest, dance, march, and sing in a shared voice to demand an end to violence against women and girls. One Billion Rising, an...

India's Domestic Violence Act: first state-level stock taking

18 January 2013 | Smriti Singh | 2 | Blog channel: Gender Justice

In collaboration with the civil society collective in Lucknow, Oxfam India recently organized the first state-level stock taking in Uttar Pradesh on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act...

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