Campaigns

When people are blocked from opportunity, they often need to change laws, customs, and policies. Without these changes, real progress against poverty cannot be achieved. Oxfam's economic and political analysis helps us change the minds of powerful decision makers.

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  G8-G20 Summits 2010

  With the G8 and G20 Summits taking place in Canada this summer, Oxfam is working to make sure that world leaders step up to the plate in tackling global poverty.
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  Stop Harming, Start Helping - Women's Rights and Climate Change

  Climate Change is more than an environmental issue. It is about poverty and human rights. More than this it is about the rights of women.
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  Public Services - For All - Fight Poverty

  Join Oxfam and CUPE to make sure that everyone has access to vital public services that fight poverty.
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  PlayFair

  Oxfam partner the Maquila Solidarity Network and the PlayFair campaign have launched a website rating sportswear brands on worker rights.
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  G8 Summit 2009 - Italy

  Oxfam will be at the Group of Eight Summit in Italy lobbying to get rich countries to boost development aid, tackle climate change, and invest in developing country agriculture so that poor countries are less reliant on food aid.
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  G20 Summit 2009 – Pittsburgh

  Leaders of 20 of the world's most powerful nations meet in Pittsburgh this week for the G20 Summit. We are calling for action on climate change and aid, and are reporting live, offering the Canadian perspective.
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  G20 Summit, 2009 – Live from London

  Oxfam brings together influential bloggers for the G20 in London
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  Make Poverty History

  Make Poverty History is a joint campaign sponsored by Oxfam Canada and dozens of other Canadian organizations, which is linked to similar campaigns in over 40 countries around the world.
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  Control Arms

  The Control Arms Campaign, led by Oxfam, Amnesty Internatonal and Project Ploughshares here in Canada, seeks to create momentum for a global treaty controlling the trade in small arms.
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  Make Trade Fair

  This campaign targets politicians, corporations and the public at large in 21 countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America to transform trade into part of the solution to world poverty, instead of part of the problem.
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  Fair Trade in Coffee

  Under the current system of coffee trade, very little of what consumers pay for coffee, often less than 10%, reaches the farmer who grows the beans.