To mark International Women's Day 2008 Oxfam Publishing is providing free online access to Oxfam books, journal articles and policy papers on women and gender.

A selection of books and resources available to download free.

• Programme Insights: Learning for Action on Women's Leadership and Participation: All Papers. Also available in Spanish.
• Programme Insights: The African Women's Protocol
• Gender-Based Violence
• Gender Equality and Sexual Exploitation
• Ending Violence Against Women
• Development, Women and War 
• Impact of Guns on Women's lives 
• Debt and Women
• PDFs of LINKS, Oxfam's newsletter on gender are now available on the publishing website.

Policy Papers

• The Cost of Childbirth : How women are paying the price for broken promises on aid
• The Tsunami's Impact on Women
• Gender Issues in Conflict and Humanitarian Crises

UK Poverty Resources

• Tackling Inequalities: A guide to planning better services
• From getting by to getting on: women's employment and local regeneration programmes
• For better or worse: tackling women's and men's poverty in regeneration
• Into the Lion's Den: a practical guide to including women in regeneration
• A place for everyone: gender equality and urban planning
• A Change in Thinking: Gender Budgeting - now's the time
• Where are all the Women?: Women's representation in Local Strategic Partnerships

Resources available to purchase from Oxfam Publishing.

• The Oxfam Gender Training Manual
• Violence Against Women
• Women and Conflict
• Women's Rights
• Titles in the Focus on Gender series
• Other titles in the WiGaD series
• Development in Practice Readers

Development in Practice is peer-reviewed and is published six times a year. The main purpose of Development in Practice is to generate and contribute to debate. The journal is editorially independent, and articles do not necessarily reflect the policy positions of Oxfam GB.

• A journey towards development: the impact of local NGO programmes on women living in the char lands of Bangladesh
• Taking the power out of empowerment - an experiential account
• Gender equality - whose agenda? Observations from Cameroon
• Poverty reduction and violence against women: exploring links, assessing impact
• Ni Vanuatu women graduates: what happens when they go home?
• Palestinian women, violence, and the peace process
• Promoting gender equality? Some development-related uses of ICTs by women
• Domestic violence, deportation, and women's resistance: notes on managing inter-sectionality  
• Mainstreaming gender in the police: the Maharashtra experience 
• Women in Afghanistan: passive victims of the borga or active social participants?
• Developing policy on integration and re/construction in Kosova
• Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar
• View a complete list of Development in Practice articles here.

• Telling our own stories': African women blogging for social change
• 'Women's pages' in Kenya's newspapers: implications for the country's development
• Development on-air: women's radio production in Afghanistan
• Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women's liberty and security
• The politics of the marginalised: Dalits and women's activism in India
• No more killings! Women respond to femicides in Central America
• The Peace and Conflict Gender Analysis: UNIFEM's research in the Solomon Islands
• Using the master's tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women 
• Faith, gender and development agendas in Nigeria: conflicts, challenges, and opportunities
• Gender violence in schools: taking the 'girls-as-victims' discourse forward
• Approaching old problems in new ways: community mobilisation as a primary prevention strategy to combat violence against women
• 'We Can': transforming power in relationships in South Asia
• View more articles from Gender & Development  here.

• International Women's Day and Oxfam
• Oxfam GB's work on Gender Equality

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