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Haiti: Oxfam's toughest week ever
Although aid is beginning to get through, the impact of the earthquake on Oxfam’s Haitian and international staff, the logistical challenges combined with a destroyed office and warehouse and the loss of communications have made this the one of the hardest responses the agency has ever mounted.
100 kilometres to overcome poverty and injustice
Oxfam Trailwalker is one of the world's toughest team challenges and one of the most rewarding. The 2010 is already in the works, so get your team together and start training today!
Climate change affecting millions today
Climate change is no future possibility in many of the world's poorest countries. It is a catastrophe today, curtailing rainfall and stunting the growing season.
Hope for Zimbabwe's Constitutional Reform
The process of re-writing Zimbabwe's constitution has been stalled awaiting funding, but observers seem confident that drafting a new document outlining human rights in the southern African nation is on track - and proving inclusive of women.
Surviving the "Lean Season" in Mozambique
It’s called the “lean season,” the hungry weeks before a new crop is ready to be harvested, when food stored from a previous crop runs dangerously low.
World Food Day 2009
As we mark World Food Day, we remain stuck in a food crisis. In East Africa, more than 23 million people are facing severe hunger. In the Americas, small farmers are struggling with growing seasons that have shrunk with climate change.
What can you do to change the course of climate history?
Oxfam Ambassador and Bollywood star Rahul Bose and Christian Ora, from the Solomon Islands, are speaking in and around Vancouver about the impacts of climate change.
Tough talk from India’s ex-environment minister
India’s former environment minister came to Canada with a message: Climate change is a shared responsibility and unless world leaders come together to sign a fair, binding agreement in Copehagen, we’re all doomed together.
Long-term solutions to Guatemala’s food shortage
Longer term solutions to Guatemala’s food shortage can be found in programs and partnerships that increase farm production. Ensuring farmers produce enough food to adequately feed their families is the aim of one Guatemalan project supported by Oxfam Canada.
Oxfam Canada marks World Humanitarian Day
With climate change expected to trigger more and more humanitarian disasters, Oxfam Canada salutes the women and men who respond in an emergency
Re-growing after the hurricanes on Youth Island, Cuba
A look at an Oxfam Canada project in Cuba that, through partnerships, promotes and supports agriculture in a region devastated by successive hurricanes.
Renowned playwright and activist, Eve Ensler addressed the Canadian Government
“What is happening in the DRC is the worst violence towards women in the world. If it continues to go unchecked, unstopped, if there continues to be complete impunity it sets a precedent, a standard, it expands the boundaries of what now becomes permissible to do to women’s bodies in the name of exploitation and greed everywhere," said Eve Ensler.
1 Way 2 C the World
Oxfam Canada was honoured to be able to co-sponsor public readings in Ottawa, on April 27th,and Toronto, on April 20th, with renowned women’s rights activist, feminist economist, ex- New Zealand MP, goat farmer, folk singer (the list goes on…), Marilyn Waring.
Glimmers of hope in Congo
The war zone of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not a place that is usually associated with hope. The statistics quickly challenge optimism. Since 1998, the country has lost 5.4 million people to conflict, and over a million people are still displaced in the eastern part of the country. But when I visited eastern Congo last week, there were positive glimmers, in an admittedly still fragile situation.
Talking About Violence Against Women: Verona Singer shares a police perspective
The police often get a bad reputation for the ways they treat violence against women. There are horror stories of police telling women that family violence is a personal matter, and that date rape is not really rape. Verona Singer does not fit this picture. ...
World AIDS Day 2008 - Curbing the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls
Women around the globe are significantly disadvantaged where HIV and AIDS are concerned. Gender inequality places women at higher risk of infection, as women’s rights are consistently violated.