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Migrant women: Narratives and perceptions
by Eleni Diker, Sydney Cohee, and Natalia Kossowska
2025
Available in English
This joint policy brief by UN Women and Oxfam explores how narratives about migrant women are shaped and why they matter. Using the Stereotype Content Model, it examines how public perceptions — from pity to admiration or contempt — influence visibility, rights, and well‑being. The brief highlights harmful frames across contexts and offers practical guidance for governments, media, and civil society to reshape narratives through gender‑responsive, human‑rights‑based storytelling.
Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good
by Oxfam
2020
Available in English, Spanish, French
Narratives are a form of power that can mobilize and connect, as well as divide and isolate. Social, public or dominant narratives help to legitimize existing power relationships, prop them up or make them seem natural.
As an anthology of perspectives this knowledge offering is one way to amplify different and diverse ways of knowing and doing narratives. Narratives are made up of many stories, tweets, online content, offline conversations. They keep deeply held ideas about society and people in place, for good and bad.
Narratives are not something that happen over there, they are part of us and we are part of them. We can challenge or reinforce narratives on daily basis. We see powerful damaging narratives at work in the COVID-19 response, and in systems of oppression that perpetuate inequality. We can use this knowledge to guide us now and as we move into the future. Narrative knowledge and framing know-how can help us to open civic space, collaborate better and amplify others, helping us to be part of the biggest ‘us’ we can be.
Interested to know more? We spoke to 20+ collaborators from across the world. They share with us their knowledge, ideas, tips, and tactics from their lived experience. Learn from them. Collaborate with them. Let’s creatively and collectively act on narratives together. These ideas are contributing to Oxfam’s creative collaborations with others to protect and open civic space.
Narrative Spices: An Invitational Guide for Flavorful Human Rights
by The Fund for Global Human Rights & Just Labs
2022
Available in English and French
The guide is an invitation to self-refection and creative practice for human rights advoca-tes who are interested in narrative change.
New Tech, New Rules
by Brett Davidson with contributions from Di Luong, IRIS
2026
Available in English
This report explores how civil society organisations are adapting to the challenges and opportunities of AI and algorithm‑driven platforms. Drawing on insights from ten organisations across the Global Majority, it highlights how practitioners are navigating increasingly complex digital environments to sustain civic engagement and resist authoritarian dynamics. The findings point to three key approaches: co‑opting technology and popular culture for resistance, countering surveillance and disinformation, and innovating through new forms of storytelling and organising.
No Unga Tax – Connecting taxes for the rich and poor
by The Rules
2019
Available in English
One way wealth is extracted from the global south is through the network of tax havens, which, by allowing the rich to hide their wealth, pushes the tax burden onto those with the least ability to pay. The case study documents how The Rules intervened to draw attention to how the City of London was extending its influence in East Africa by trying to make Kenya a tax haven for the region, and the Kenyan government’s supporting role in taxing basic goods, like maize (or Unga, in Swahili) instead of the hoarded wealth of the elite.
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