Firoze Manji[1] How does one summarize in an article the breadth and depth of our reflections about and love for this exceptional woman, Micere Githae Mugo? It is a fitting tribute to her that the majority of comments on social media and elsewhere have taken the form of celebrating her contributions rather than shedding tears. These tributes are filled with …
Decolonising Knowledge and Practice: Our new issue
The Gender & Development team is happy to share its July-November 2023 issue on Decolonising knowledge and practice As Gender & Development comes close to completing two years since its transition from its editorial base in Oxfam Great Britain to its new editorial home hosted by a consortium of six southern Oxfam affiliates comprising Oxfams Brasil, Colombia, India, KEDV (Turkey), …
Women, Work, and the Digital Economy: Our new Issue
The Gender & Development team is happy to share its November 2022 issue on Women, Work and the Digital Economy. The massive scale at which the economy is undergoing digitalisation – in the form of digital labour platforms, mobile technologies and digital financial services, has had a transformative effect on work, labour relations, mobility of goods, people and services, and …
Beijing + 25: a milestone for women’s rights
Lina Abou Habib, G&D editorial adviser and guest editor for our new issue, writes: It’s my pleasure to welcome you to this very special issue of Gender & Development, marking 25 years since the UN convened its milestone Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing, China. Listen to the podcast on the issue here. Known to many of us, affectionately, …
Sexualities, development and justice
Editor Caroline Sweetman introduces our new issue on sexualities. The universal human desire to have good and pleasurable relationships – including intimate relationships – is echoed in songs, poetry and the performing arts. But sex and sexuality are still seen as irrelevant to development, part of private life, like intimate partner violence and domestic violence. But treating sex and sexuality …
Turning 25! Our birthday and the new website
Happy birthday to us! Gender & Development began publishing twenty-five years ago this month – way back in 1993. Its first issue focused on women and the environment. For the first two years, we published as Focus on Gender, and guest editors were hired for each issue. Two hundred copies were posted out – to ‘friends and family’ in INGOs, …
An open letter from the Editor, Caroline Sweetman
Dear friends of Gender & Development You may know that Gender & Development is owned and funded entirely by Oxfam, on behalf of the whole development and humanitarian sector. In our 25 years of publication, the two entities have proudly kept separate brands and identities, and the journal is editorially and intellectually independent. However, the fact remains the journal is …
No environmental justice without gender justice
Gender equality and women’s rights are core to attaining sustainable, just human development. Editor, Caroline Sweetman, introduces the natural resource justice issue of the Gender & Development. 2017 was the deadliest year yet for environmental activism: 150 women and men have so far been murdered for defending natural resources and the communities who depend on them. Millions of the world’s poorest people live …
Taking a toilet break: on the railway line
Having unmet needs for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) not only endangers life, it can negatively affect all aspects of daily existence, and women and girls suffer the most. Editor, Caroline Sweetman, introduces the WASH issue of Gender & Development. Imagine you’re a teenage girl, dying to go to the loo – but you can’t, until your mother comes home. Without …