Author: Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, March 2024
Between 2015 and 2017, Oxfam, the international social justice organization, waged a campaign against the US poultry industry to seek better wages, healthy and safe working conditions, and worker voice for poultry processing workers. These workers, predominantly women and almost all people of color,...
Topics: Business & Economics, Civil & Human Rights, Culture & Society
Author: Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, April 2023
Between 2013 and 2016, Oxfam waged an ambitious campaign to challenge the world’s top 10 food and beverage companies to change the social, ethical, and environmental sourcing in their global supply chains. The campaign bargained on the large, branded companies’ susceptibility to consumer pressure,...
Topics: Culture & Society
Authors: David Cortright, Anna Romandash
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2024
In response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, developed democracies have imposed thousands of restrictions on Russian energy exports, international financing, and imports of weapons and military-related technology, with the goal of reducing state revenues and constraining the capacity for continued war. The sanctions have...
Topics: Peacebuilding, Policy
Authors: Lakshmi Iyer, Eduardo Pagés
Keough School of Global Affairs, July 2022
In December 2021, US President Joe Biden faced the decision of whether to push forward with the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), which would increase US government spending by more than $2 trillion. Three previous spending bills had already been passed over the previous...
Topics: Business & Economics, COVID-19, Governance
Authors: Nick Galasso, Barbara Durr, Benjamin Topa
Keough School of Global Affairs, March 2022
Some of the world’s best coffee is grown in Ethiopia, where the livelihoods of 1.5 million small farmers depend on selling their superior beans at a fair price. But in the late 1990s and early 2000s, prices in the global coffee market plummeted. To...
Topics: Business & Economics, Policy
Authors: Benjamin Davis, Leslie Lipper, Paul Winters
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2022
Much current thinking on food system transformation focuses on the global level and often prioritizes the planet over the poor. Transformative approaches that seek to achieve better nutritional and environmental outcomes without consideration of how proposed changes affect the potential for inclusive growth could...
Topics: Policy, Sustainability
Authors: Camila Fernández, Larissa Campuzano, Ivonne Padilla, Nancy Murray, Danice Guzmán
Pulte Institute for Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2022
While there has been remarkable progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goal #4 of inclusive and equitable quality education, important deficits in learning and access to education remain for disadvantaged and marginalized populations in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries. Low- and middle-income countries...
Topics: Education, Policy
Authors: Sara Gaviser Leslie, Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2022
Oxfam, the international nongovernmental organization, was rocked by press revelations in 2018 of sexual misconduct in its 2011 Haiti humanitarian operations following the devasting earthquake there. The scandal, which occurred amid a crescendo of the #MeToo movement, challenged the new leader of Oxfam’s American...
Topics: Governance, Policy
Authors: Steve Reifenberg, Luke Maillie, Molly Kuehn, Jens Henrik Munthe-Kaas, Matthew Weyenberg
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2022
The case, Improving Surgical Care in Zambia: Building a National Plan, examines how the government of Zambia developed the first in the world National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anaesthesia Plan (NSOAP) from 2015-2017. The Zambian government incorporated recommendations from the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery...
Topics: Health, Policy
Authors: Alistair Millar, George A. Lopez, David Cortright, Linda Gerber
Keough School of Global Affairs, December 2020
In a new policy report published by the Keough School of Global Affairs, peacebuilding policy experts summarize their recommendations for the incoming administration of President-Elect Joe Biden. From Crisis to Opportunity: A Policy Playbook on Nonproliferation Sanctions traces the negative consequences of Washington’s misuse of sanctions,...
Topics: Peacebuilding, Policy
