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Oxfam Canada is pleased to announce the second round of the Stand Up for SRHR Financial Support for Community-Based…
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Canadian aid organizations applaud Canada for significant funding for Yemen crisis, call for an end to military assistance to parties to the conflict
In response to Canada’s commitment of funding at the third High-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, the CEOs of Save the Children Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam Quebec and CARE Canada, today released the following joint statement: Today, governments took a welcome step to alleviate the suffering of millions of people who are…
Yemeni crisis forces parents to marry off three-year-old child in desperate attempt to keep family alive
Conflict, rising food prices and plummeting incomes in Yemen are forcing people to resort to desperate measures to stave off hunger, Oxfam said today. The warning comes as rich countries meet in Geneva to pledge aid for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen which has left almost 10 million people one step away from famine. Since…
Conflict, poverty and hunger driving child marriage in South Sudan: Oxfam
Another generation of girls in South Sudan will miss out on an education, face huge health risks in childbirth and are more likely to face sexual and domestic violence, if efforts to end child marriage are not stepped up, warned international agency Oxfam in a new report published today. In Nyal, in the north of…
Global sexual and reproductive health and rights leaders call for continued Canadian leadership
Statement: Global sexual and reproductive health and rights leaders call for continued Canadian leadership Attn: The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, M.P., Prime Minister of Canada The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau. M.P., Minister of International Development Ms. Kamal Khera, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development The Honourable Bill Morneau, M.P., Minister of Finance The…