Rohingya Refugee Crisis

The need for humanitarian assistance is becoming urgent with monsoon season approaching. More than 860, 000 Rohingya people have crossed over to Bangladesh and are living in refugee camps. Oxfam is responding now.
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Boat arrives in Bangladesh. Credit: Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville

Why Economic Inequality is a Feminist Issue

Every day brings with it a rousing success or a crushing setback in our fight for equal rights. One fight Oxfam International's Executive Director Winnie Byanyima has been focusing her efforts on is the global economic model that’s absolutely rigged against women.
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Oxfam International Executive Director Winnie Byanyima (right) at the G7 Ministerial meetings in Whistler. (Photo: Diana Sarosi | Oxfam Canada)

Creating Spaces Project

Creating Spaces takes action to reduce violence against women and girls, and to reduce the prevalence of child, early and forced marriage in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines and Nepal.
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June 12, 2018
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Oxfam provides desperately needed food in DR Congo's Ebola outbreak

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G7 falls short on finding ways to reduce economic inequality and close gender gap

June 10, 2018
Oxfam International executive director Winnie Byanyima gives her thoughts on the outcome of this year's G7 Summit in Quebec.    ... more
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Sarah, the chairperson of a handicrafts group in Bidibidi refugee setttlement, uses a microphone to call women to join her group. Photo: Kieran Doherty/Oxf

Rebuilding lives with beads and a megaphone

June 20, 2018
In Uganda’s Bidibidi refugee resettlement camp, one woman is helping others make money—and heal—through a jewellery-making group.     ... more
Rajiah, 46, fled violence near her home in Myanmar 6 months ago, with her younger daughter, who is 15 years old.

Changing the lives of mothers in Bangladesh refugee camps

June 19, 2018
Rajiah is one of close to one million Rohingya people who fled violence in Myanmar, crossing the border into Bangladesh. Raijah is now using her skills and experience from her past to help provide information and support to the pregnant women in her refugee camp.    ... more
A Mother and daughter stand in front of shelters at the Fadhigaab IDP camp, Sool region, Somaliland.

Promoting women’s dignity and empowerment in humanitarian response

June 14, 2018
Heather Patterson, Oxfam Humanitarian Program Officer, recounts her experience on a field visit to Somaliland. Somaliland suffered from severe drought in 2017, which left millions hungry and without access to clean and safe water.    ... more