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Towards Meaningful Human Rights Impact Assessments: From supermarket commitments to best practice action
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This discussion paper focuses on the commitments that Dutch, German and UK
supermarkets made as part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign to conduct human
rights impact assessments (HRIAs). To understand whether supermarkets are
meaningfully implementing those commitments and to support learning, this paper
analyses the HRIAs that supermarkets have published in the past four years and
identifies best practice efforts and points of improvement. Oxfam also outlines key
recommendations for supermarkets and other food companies to improve HRIA processes
to ensure that the rights of people making our food are better protected and respected.
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La perception du changement climatique dans les zones côtières du Sénégal
No full textThe cognitive dimension of climate change is a subject that is rarely analysed. However, communities’ endogenous adaptation strategies are heavily dependent on their perception of the risks linked to climate change. An analysis of individuals’ representations and perceptions of climate change makes it possible to improve the ability to adapt of territories confronted by it.
In this analysis, the relations of interdependence between perception, knowledge and adaptation strategies show how communities living in the coastal area of Senegal interpret climate change, in particular in the fields of agriculture, water resources and coastal areas.
Considering these representations favours the co-construction and acceptability of the adaptation strategies.
It enables state and non state actors to better understand the communities’ needs as regards public climate policies, whereas the media can identify levers they can use to devise effective public information campaigns on the climate, in order to reduce the vulnerability of communities that face climate hazards.La dimension cognitive du changement climatique reste peu investie. Or, les stratégies d’adaptation endogènes des communautés dépendent fortement de leur perception des risques liés au changement climatique. Une analyse des représentations et des perceptions des individus sur le changement climatique permet de renforcer la capacité d’adaptation des territoires face à ce phénomène.
Dans cette analyse, les relations d’interdépendance entre la perception, le savoir et les stratégies d’adaptation montrent comment les communautés vivant sur la zone côtière du Sénégal interprètent le changement climatique, notamment dans les domaines de l’agriculture, des ressources en eau, et des zones côtières.
La prise en compte de ces représentations va dans le sens d’une co-construction et de l’acceptabilité des stratégies d’adaptation.
Elle permet aux acteurs étatiques et non étatiques de mieux comprendre les besoins des communautés en matière de politiques publiques climatiques, tandis que les médias peuvent identifier les leviers sur lesquels agir pour développer des campagnes d’information publique sur le climat efficaces afin de réduire la vulnérabilité des communautés en cas d’aléas climatiques.</p
The Ukraine Crisis: Adapting to an evolving crisis through partnerships
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As the war in Ukraine continues, communities affected by the crisis are having to constantly adapt to new realities. In response, humanitarian action needs to be flexible, agile and responsive to people’s needs.
Since February 2022, Oxfam has been working with local Ukrainian NGOs to support communities that have been particularly affected by the conflict. The specific communities and the types of support they need are changing over time. 
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Relations of tolerance: Syrian women, internal boundaries, and public space
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Since the early days of the Syrian Civil War, the presence of Syrians in Turkey has garnered considerable attention. Together with the European Union’s efforts to externalise the perceived problem of incoming Syrians and the consequential positioning of Syrians as unwanted, Turkish official policy labelling Syrians as temporary guests has had profound implications in society. Migration governance works with boundaries imposed from above – boundaries that society at large reproduces to distance itself from the apparent other. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Syrian women, this study discusses the effects of the discursive, symbolic, and social boundaries they face in Turkish society. These boundaries, rooted in relations of tolerance and deservingness, are encountered by women refugees in Turkish public spaces, shaping women’s visibility, self-expression, interactions in society, and daily lives.
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Resources: Gender and Public Space
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This is the Resources section of the special issue on 'Gender and Public Space'.
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Inflicting Unprecedented Suffering and Destruction: Seven ways the government of Israel is deliberately blocking and/or undermining the international humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip
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Over five months into the Israeli mass atrocities on the Gaza Strip, in response to the horrific 7 October 2023 attacks by Palestinian armed groups, a meaningful and safe humanitarian response is made impossible by the government of Israel.
In this briefing we outline seven fundamental humanitarian access constraints.
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Climate Plans for the People: Civil society and community participation in national action plans on climate change
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In 2024, all countries will be updating and submitting their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). These national climate plans outline commitments towards tackling climate change. These plans impact all walks of life and must therefore be inclusive of the whole of society. By examining recent practices across 11 countries, Oxfam found that NDCs were not sufficiently inclusive, often failing to involve civil society and communities who bear the burden of climate change and the impact of climate transition plans. This paper explores who the main actors are in NDCs, which stakeholders have not been included, and why. In order to foster a sustainable, equitable, and inclusive social, economic, and political environment for climate action, the paper makes recommendations for the UN, governments, donors, international agencies and civil society.
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Biofuel Blunders: Time to fix two decades of EU policies driving food insecurity
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Since 2003, EU policymakers have promoted biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they have turned out to be a disaster for the climate, human rights and food security. 
Studies have shown that, when emissions from land-use changes are taken into account, biodiesel made from vegetable oils, such as palm, soy or rapeseed oil, emits more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels. EU biofuel policies also incentivize the need for vast areas of land globally to produce feedstocks for the biofuel industry.
This paper also lays out how these fuels threaten food security because of their impact on food availability, food prices and stability, and the social and environmental sustainability of food systems. It recommends changes to EU biofuel policies and proposes sustainable biofuel and transport policies.
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COVID-19 Violence and the Re-making of Urban Space Through Solidarity Networks Among Transgender Women in Lima, Peru
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Extreme instances of COVID-19 policy-related violence against transgender (trans) communities in Latin America highlight the imperative to better understand how gender, power, and rights are entwined within public spaces. Peru is a useful vantage point to explore the intersections between gendered power asymmetries, violence, and access to safe public spaces, given the brief COVID-19 public health policy that restricted the mobility of its citizens based on binary understandings of sex and associated cisheteronormativity. These policies restricted access to public spaces and essential services to women on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and to men on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and were enforced based on sex assigned at birth reported via identity documents. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with Peruvian trans women, this paper examines the impacts of these COVID-19 policies on trans communities and documents grassroots activism efforts to navigate public space that ultimately demand and assert human rights both during and post-COVID-19. Findings illustrate that while short-lived, the sex-based policies and associated policing in urban public space significantly impacted the well-being of Peruvian trans women. Participants illustrated numerous community-enacted strategies to navigate COVID-19 inequities, including information sharing, crowd-sourcing funds to secure food, pay rent and/or secure housing, and grocery shopping provided by trans people for trans people. Further, community mutual aid efforts have continued and evolved years into the pandemic. Jointly, findings advance understandings of the critical role of public spaces as arenas of political struggles that reveal and challenge a wider spectrum of intersecting oppressions and power structures that trans women continually navigate and resist.
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