GROW blogs
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, women’s conditions of participation in markets and their rewards from that participation,...
On 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 look at what it would take for women to not have to shoulder so many responsibilities in the first...
Systemic problems are locking-in low wages for tea workers in countries around the world. A new report outlines the challenges and what can be done.
The tragic collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh has put a spotlight on the poor pay and working conditions endured by...
With your help, Oxfam has been campaigning since September on land grabs, as part of our GROW campaign for food justice. We wanted the World Bank to take some urgently needed action to help end land grabs in many developing countries, which help keep one in eight people hungry...
Big land deals are tearing whole communities apart, leaving people hungry and homeless. It's big business at a big cost. And the World Bank has the power to be a force for good. Since October we’ve been asking them to freeze their large-scale land investments whilst they strengthen their...
This film tells Patricia's story, and that of others like her, whose homes and communities are threatened by a legal land grab. We can't tell you their real names, or show you their faces, because it's not safe to do so. But they are not simply passive victims. On the contrary, they are...
At the beginning of its Land and Poverty Conference last week, the World Bank Group put out a statement on land that follows many months - and in some cases years - of campaigning and lobby by organisations all over the world for the Bank to take land-grabbing more seriously....
"This case is just one example of a wave of 'land grabbing' sweeping the developing world. Every week, banks and private investors buy an area the size of London!"
In the once tranquil Casiguran municipality of the Philippines, a powerful local political...
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.
Small-scale women farmers are the backbone of Africa's food system, but, as corporations buy up huge swathes of...
Mars and Nestlé have agreed to do more to ‘know and show’ how women are being treated in their cocoa supply chain, to commit to a plan of action, to work to sign on to the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, and to work with industry organizations to address gender issues. These...
