What’s Causing the Hunger Crisis in East Africa?
Oxfam is responding in four countries and urging more international assistance to help people facing severe…
Oxfam Canada is pleased to announce the third and final round of the Her Future Her…
Cash-For-Work: A Temporary Lifeline at Za’atari Refugee Camp
A decent job -even if temporary- makes a difference for refugees in Jordan. The Za’atari refugee…
Five reasons we need a law that requires Canadian fashion brands to end human rights abuses…
Today marks six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. We’ve seen an outpour of solidarity and generosity…
The Greatest Challenge to Humanitarian Work: Funding
Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published in 2022 and last updated August 11 2023…
Oxfam Canada is pleased to announce the second round of recipients of the Her Future Her…
Nutrition challenges are increasing in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as mothers struggle to keep their babies well-fed.…
Adopting human rights and environmental due diligence legislation would help to advance Canada’s feminist foreign policy…
In pre-colonial times, Indigenous communities respected the babaylan, the Filipino version of a shaman who sometimes…
What Does It Mean to Live in a Post-Roe v. Wade World?
My heart sank when I heard about the leaked U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion to overturn…
We’re living at a time of unprecedented global displacement. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees…
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GAZA: Starvation or Gunfire – This is Not a Humanitarian Response
Oxfam, alongside over 170 NGOs, calls for immediate action to end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme (including the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) in Gaza, revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, and lift the Israeli government’s blockade on aid and commercial supplies. The 400 aid distribution points operating during the temporary ceasefire across Gaza have…
New wealth of top 1% surges by over $33.9 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over, as Oxfam warns global development “abysmally off track” ahead of crunch talks
Oxfam Condemns “Private Finance Takeover” as Global Wealth Concentration Reaches Historic Levels Oxfam condemns “private finance takeover” of development efforts, as over 3.7 billion people remain in poverty ten years after the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed. New Oxfam analysis unveils “astronomical rise in private wealth”. Between 1995 and 2023, global private wealth grew by…
Global survey finds 8 out of 10 people support taxing oil and gas corporations to pay for climate damages
Ottawa, 19 June – A majority of people believe governments must tax oil, gas and coal corporations for climate-related loss and damage, and that their government is not doing enough to counter the influence on politics of the super-rich and polluting industries. These are the key findings of a global survey, which reflects broad consensus…
Oxfam Reaction to the 2025 G7 Summit
Oxfam is deeply concerned by the outcomes of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis. At a time when urgent global crises demand bold and united action, the summit fell short of delivering the leadership the world needs. Oxfam said that nowhere was this more apparent than in how this G7 totally missed its chance to exert…