Gender and trade

The Participation of Women in Peace Processes-The Other Tables is a paper that argues that women’s absence in peace processes cannot be explained by their alleged lack of experience in dialogue and negotiation, but by a serious lack of will to include them in such important initiatives of change. Women have wide ranging experience in dialogue processes including many war and post-war contexts, but there has been a deliberate lack of effort to integrate them in formal peace processes. After introducing the research framework, the paper addresses women’s involvement in peace, and analyzes the role played by women in peace processes, through the cases of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland. The paper concludes that peace processes are as gendered as wars, and for that reason gender has to be a guiding line for including women in peace processes.

This report, the third official report from Lebanon, comes less than a year after Lebanon’s submission of its first and second reports (CEDAW/C/LBN/1 and CEDAW/C/LBN/2) considered by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (hereafter referred to as “the Committee”) at its 691st and 692nd sessions in New York on 12 July 2005 (CEDAW/C/SR.691 and CEDAW/C/SR.692). This is Lebanon’s response to the agenda set for periodic reporting, pursuant to article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of all Form of Discrimination against Women (hereafter referred to as “the Convention”).

Training Manual: Gender Leadership in Humanitarian Action- Institutionalizing Gender in Emergencies: Bridging Policy and Practice in the Humanitarian System. This manual pulls a range of sources, adapting and updating them for an integrated five-day training module designed to develop gender leadership in humanitarian action in a country context. It draws heavily on work by the authors of Oxfam’s Training Manual on Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in Emergencies, Oxfam, (2013, unpublished). It also draws on training materials compiled for Oxfam’s Gender Leadership Programme, particularly those delivered in the Middle East & Commonwealth of Independent States (MECIS) region, and on training materials developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). The Simulation of a disaster exercise is adapted from the exercise used in IASC’s online course, Gender in Humanitarian Action. Various case studies from the online course have also been used. It is hoped that people will use this source to adapt and create their own training sessions too, in this rapidly evolving and vital area of work.

This paper presents a research on transformative and feminist leadership for women's rights. This research includes analysis of trends and recurring challenges on setting a transformative agenda for realizing women’s rights. In doing this research, Oxfam made the following assumptions: that most women leaders and organizations supporting their leadership do not use explicit language about transformation and feminism; that women leaders can be patriarchic and hierarchical; and that men can be women’s rights champions and transformative leaders. Exercising transformative leadership for women’s rights does not require the exclusion of issues that are not directly relevant to women’s interests and needs.

Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights, an Oxfam Guide, understanding how leadership can create sustainable change that promotes women’s rights and gender equality. This guide is intended as a resource that will inform and inspire the work of Oxfam staff and of our partners. It can be read and consulted by individual staff members, or used as a basis for discussion with peers or partner organizations. The guide is available to interested external readers and organizations via the Oxfam website. Eventually, this guide will be accompanied by an online learning module, which will also be available on Oxfam’s website.