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Oxfam Canada, Save the Children, MSF, and Islamic Relief held a joint press briefing urging Canada to push for a ceasefire in Gaza, end the aid blockade, and halt arms…

by Aanu Ogundipe | May 23, 2025

The blockade of food, water and relief that has brought so much hunger and suffering to Gaza is the latest example of the growing use of starvation as a weapon…

by Oxfam Canada | May 2, 2025

The Gaza crisis continues with widespread destruction, severe restrictions on aid, and rising hunger and disease. Oxfam provides vital support, but a permanent ceasefire is essential for recovery and peace.

by Oxfam Canada | February 18, 2025

It’s impossible to miss Amer. She commands attention above most at over six feet tall – not just with her height, but with her sharp wit and unfiltered, cheeky opinions,…

by Caroline Leal | January 24, 2025

In the shadow of a ceasefire that does not include Gaza, bakeries are shuttered, flour supplies are running out, and trucks remain barred from entering. For Duaa and countless families…

by Oxfam Canada | December 9, 2024

As the one-year mark of the Israeli operation in Gaza approaches, the humanitarian crisis deepens. Here’s what’s happening—and how you can help.

by Oxfam Canada | September 20, 2024

TITLE FROMPOST TYPE After traveling to the region, Lauren Ravon, Oxfam Canada Executive Director, shares first hand experiences and perspectives of Oxfam staff in Gaza and the West Bank. by…

by Lauren Ravon | June 11, 2024

Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate love here in Canada. Meanwhile, in Gaza, people are facing unimaginable injustice and suffering. The escalating crescendo of violence has, with the invasion…

by Vita Sgardello | February 13, 2024

For over three months, the world has witnessed one of the most devastating conflicts in modern history unfold in Gaza. Today we ask you to join our call for Minister…

by Vita Sgardello | January 26, 2024

Six detrimental ways women and girls in Gaza are particularly affected by the weight of conflict and displacement.

by Elena Sosa Lerín | November 25, 2023

Many in the international community including Canada are pressing for a “humanitarian pause”, while others have called for “humanitarian corridors” and so-called “safe zones” in Gaza. You may be surprised…

by Oxfam Canada | November 7, 2023

Humanitarian needs are at an all-time high worldwide, but woeful underfunding hinders humanitarian action.

by Oxfam Canada | August 18, 2023

A firsthand account of what a difference Oxfam Canada supporters are making to a community in Amhara, northern Ethiopia - a region that has been through so much.

by Jennifer Alldred | May 24, 2023

The war has devastated Ukraine while people in the most vulnerable corners of the world continue feeling its catastrophic ripple effects.

by Oxfam | August 24, 2022

Nutrition challenges are increasing in Ethiopia's Tigray region as mothers struggle to keep their babies well-fed.

by Oxfam | July 12, 2022

Countries in the Horn of Africa are enduring severe hunger, with near-famine conditions in some areas, due to conflict, climate-induced weather shocks (flooding in some countries, drought in others) and…

by Oxfam | February 28, 2022

Fighting in the Tigray region, combined with the pandemic, drought, and an upsurge in locusts, is pushing hundreds of thousands into catastrophic hunger.

by Oxfam Canada | July 19, 2021

This open letter to Ministers Carolyn Bennett and Marc Miller expresses solidarity with Indigenous people in Canada in the face of ongoing genocide.

by A coalition of gender justice organizations | June 9, 2021

Oxfam continues its work to assist families surviving a decade of war in Syria, but every day in Syria is a struggle to survive.

by Dania Kareh | March 15, 2021

Canada’s bold commitments to Women, Peace and Security hold tremendous potential. But this potential will go unrealized if Canada simultaneously fuels wars that harm women.

by Brittany Lambert & Christine Martin | October 2, 2019

After an alarming UN report saying a record-breaking 71 million people have been displaced by war in 2018, Susan Grace Duku, founder of Refugee Women and Youth Aid in Uganda,…

by Susan Grace Duku | Founder of Refugee Women and Youth Aid | June 20, 2019

A female architect from Bangladesh collaborates with Rohingya women refugees to design safer hygiene and sanitation facilities.

by Oxfam Canada | March 4, 2019

“I’ve experienced going to bed without eating anything and it’s really painful.” 33-year-old Rasmiya sits on the floor of her one room mud house on the outskirts of Qara Tapa…

by Hammad | April 17, 2018

Yemen’s human-made catastrophe is forcing people to make stark live or die choices. Yemenis, already on the tipping point after more than two years of war, are now being forced…

by Oxfam Canada | August 16, 2017

Last week, Canadians came together to celebrate their country’s 149th birthday. This week, South Sudan marks 5 years as an independent nation. Yet, for many there is little to celebrate.…

by alvaro | July 7, 2016

By Melanie Gallant, Oxfam Canada’s Media Relations Officer Whether through civil war or other forms of conflict, natural disasters or climate related disasters such as drought, the global scale of…

by alvaro | June 14, 2016

By Bailey Reid, Women’s Rights Campaigner, Oxfam Canada Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) programs are popular among development interventions. They enhance the economic security of women and households by developing skills…

by alvaro | December 3, 2015

I have a lot to be thankful for. Good health, a loving family, a home and a gratifying job. But like many, I often take these blessings for granted.  This…

by Oxfam Canada | October 10, 2015

An end to the fighting would go a long way toward solving the challenges so many families now face in meeting their basic needs.   In South Sudan, only 55…

by alvaro | July 24, 2015

Last summer, 16 year old Eba'a Hamouda watched terrified as the bombs fell all around her in Gaza. Since then she has used her love of drawing and writing to…

by alvaro | July 7, 2015

Written by: Adeline Guerra, Regional Campaigns and Communications adviser Children hide behind water tanks while clothes dry outside flimsy tents in the Mediterranean sunshine. We have arrived at a refugee…

by alvaro | June 20, 2015

Despite the ceasefire, there remain enormous humanitarian needs in Gaza. The bombing of the past seven weeks has caused massive damage to water supplies. Hundreds of thousands of people are…

by alvaro | September 5, 2014

When people think of Gaza, they rarely think of a hub of technological innovation. But for the past few years Oxfam has been working with Gaza’s University College of Applied…

by Oxfam Canada | August 20, 2014

We tell our children that schools are places where they can make their hopes and dreams come true. But today in Gaza, schools have become places of desperation – a…

by Arwa Mhanna | August 11, 2014

by Aimee Brown Today marks South Sudan’s third year of independence. But in the past seven months, the sense of unity that brought its people together in 2011 has been…

by alvaro | July 9, 2014

by Dorah Ntunga Last December, Nyakuoth was living happily in South Sudan, with her husband and five children. At 27 years-old, one of Nyakuoth’s wishes was to one day visit…

by alvaro | May 9, 2014

What an amazing display of support for the #WithSyria campaign for the third anniversary of the Syria crisis – congratulations one and all for a truly moving display of solidarity!…

by Oxfam | March 20, 2014

When I touch the sensitive subject of security, all I see is discomfort and eyes wandering off to avoid mine. On Friday (21 February) I met with another young woman,…

by alvaro | February 24, 2014

“Even if peace would come, we cannot return home. We are not safe.”  These words, spoken by a grandmother who I met at an IDP camp in South Sudan, demonstrate…

by alvaro | February 17, 2014

There is something almost surreal about the setting for the Syrian peace talks. Montreux is breathtakingly beautiful, the snow-topped Swiss Alps rising starkly over Lake Geneva. Yet this is where…

by alvaro | January 23, 2014

by Grace Cahill Not yet three years old and only beginning to know what peace feels like, the world’s newest country—South Sudan—is again in the throes of extreme violence. Since…

by alvaro | January 17, 2014