Gender

Ms. Chanpeng Sengmany, 38, of Ban Somsavath in Bokeo Province.

In her own words

Ms. Chanpeng - A story of change in her own words: “We’ve faced difficult times here. There were hardly any roads to our village, no health center and the village primary school only covered grades 1, 2 and 3. I used to take care of our children and walk many kilometers to get water from the river...

Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in ASEAN Project

The Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (WEL in ASEAN) project was implemented to strengthen the capacity of WROs to be able to influence laws and policies for women’s economic leadership and empowerment in the formal and informal sectors of the...

Gender Justice

We believe that, for substantive and durable transformation to occur, change needs to take place at different, mutually reinforcing levels. We want to see more deprived and marginalised women securing greater, more sustained access and control of productive resources. We want them to have the...

Work with us

Oxfam is an international confederation of 20 organisations networking together in 90 countries. As part of a global movement for change, we are working together to build a future free from the injustice of poverty. We work with thousands of partners in countries around the world and employ staff...

Promoting Gender Equality through the Rule of Law and Good Governance

Objective The project aimed to contribute to a situation in which women have the rights, capacity and opportunity to be safe from violence and enjoy their full and equal human rights, with two specific objectives: Specific objective(s) 1.To enhance and promote the participation of CSOs in gender...

Oxfam vision and way to the future

Oxfam’s vision is of “a Laos in which all citizens, in particular women, marginalized and discriminated groups, are able to claim their right to access opportunities and resources to overcome all forms of poverty and injustice.”