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?
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We’re living at a time of unprecedented global displacement. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees…
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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 is widely marked worldwide as a Pride month – a celebration of the LGBTQI+ community…
Feminism and the rise of white supremacy in Canada
Special to Oxfam Canada: Written by Erica Ifill, who is an economist, journalist, founder of Not…
The world is facing a powerful convergence of crises. Conflict, COVID-19 and climate change are all…
Nine years ago today, 1,132 factory workers – mostly women being paid poverty wages – lost…
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Global funding for the preparation and response to El Niño and the harms it will bring to millions of people is critically insufficient, Oxfam warned today. The weather phenomenon is already having a catastrophic impact across much of the world, with wildfires, crop failures and growing severe food and water insecurity. El Niño’s intensity is…
Joint Letter to Prime Minister Carney on the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
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Countries locked into IMF austerity programs are also around twice as vulnerable to economic fallout from war against Iran
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GAZA CEASEFIRE EXISTS IN NAME ONLY, SAY MORE THAN 100 ORGANIZATIONS
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