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Do you know where your clothes come from? Learn how 5 of your favourite companies stack up

June 7, 2022
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Supply chain transparency is a growing trend in the clothing industry, in part, because consumers are…

Queer Joy: What Is It? Why We Need More of It?

June 2, 2022
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June is widely marked worldwide as a Pride month – a celebration of the LGBTQI+ community…

Feminism and the rise of white supremacy in Canada

May 17, 2022
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Special to Oxfam Canada: Written by Erica Ifill, who is an economist, journalist, founder of Not…

4 Links Between the War in Ukraine and the Horn of Africa Hunger Crisis

April 26, 2022
People are walking on a paved road, and two cars are parked in the distance. None of the people are facing the camera. Most of them seem to be women and children, wearing winter clothing and carrying bags. The main focus of the photograph is three people featured in the front centre, not facing the camera. A woman in blue jeans and a blue jean jacket carries a brown purse and two big reusable supermarket bags. Two boys wearing navy blue winter coats and winter boots are to her right. The shortest one holds both the woman’s hands and the taller boy’s hands.

The world is facing a powerful convergence of crises. Conflict, COVID-19 and climate change are all…

Do You Know the Women Who Made Your Clothes? Good Luck Finding Out!

April 24, 2022
Grey rocks of varying sizes along with parts of grey torn cotton material are mixed with pieces of old wood and string. A dirty Joe Fresh label sits in the middle of the rocks on the ground.

Nine years ago today, 1,132 factory workers – mostly women being paid poverty wages – lost…

Oxfam Canada’s 2022 Federal Budget Analysis

April 14, 2022
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Women, gender diverse people and other equity-deserving groups have been hard hit by the COVID-19 recession,…

Growing as a Feminist, Anti-Racist and Inclusive Organization

April 8, 2022
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by | Replace this with image credit information This is our second annual update on Oxfam…

Six Women Creating Spaces for Gender Justice in Asia

March 8, 2022
A group of Brown women wearing colourful saris are sitting down on the floor and raising their hands.

From a young student becoming a national advocate against child marriage to a quiet homemaker elected…

Climate, Conflict and COVID-19 Crisis in the Horn of Africa

February 28, 2022
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A combination of factors is spreading suffering across the region. Oxfam is working with partners to…

Parts of Somalia Hit by Severe, Climate-Fueled Drought

February 7, 2022
A young brown-skinned girl wearing a long, dark green skirt and a brown head scarf pushes a red wheelbarrow with a couple of yellow jerry cans across the desert. The landscape is dry and rocky, and the sky is cloudless and pale blue. In the left background of the image, there is a cluster of four small buildings.

Nearly 90 per cent of the country faces severe water shortages leaving 3.5 million people in…

Inequality Kills

January 23, 2022
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Inequality contributes to the death of at least one person every four seconds. Ahead of the…

Six Ways Oxfam Goes Beyond Charity to End Inequality, Poverty and Injustice

December 27, 2021
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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

June 26, 2025

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

June 19, 2025

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

June 17, 2025

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…

Biggest-ever aid cut by G7 members a death sentence for millions of people, says Oxfam

June 10, 2025

Aid cuts could cost millions of lives and leave girls, boys, women and men without access to enough food, water, education, health treatment G7 countries are making deliberate and deadly choices by cutting life-saving aid, enabling atrocities, and reneging on their international commitments Low and middle-income countries face reduced aid, rising debt, and trade barriers…

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