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

June 7, 2022
A brown skinned middle age woman wearing a canary yellow headscarf stands in front of a rough-textured concrete wall with a serious look on her face.

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
A man with dark skin and brown eyes stands in the centre of a large herd of thin, ailing camels whose hip bones are protruding. The man, who is very thin himself, is looking at us directly and wears a plaid shirt, dark pants and prayer beads and carries a walking stick.

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
To our left is a picture of luxury super yachts parked in a marina of turquoise water against orange and yellow old buildings and hills of with trees and mansions. To our right is a portrait of a woman looking straight holding her sleeping baby against a desolate, desert background.

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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COP30 text ‘unacceptable’ and fails communities at frontline of climate disasters

November 21, 2025

In response to the latest ‘Mutirão’ text, Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam International Climate Policy Lead, said: “As COP30 races toward its close, world leaders are gambling with the planet — and with the lives of the poorest. Rich countries are treating adaptation finance as a bargaining chip. Yet adaptation finance is a lifeline for all people, from farmers…

Oxfam Pilipinas Responds as Super Typhoon Uwan Devastates Communities

November 10, 2025

Responding to the impact of two deadly typhoons, Super Typhoon Fung-wong (local name: Uwan) and Typhoon Kalmaegi (local name: Tino), Maria Rosario Felizco, Oxfam Pilipinas Executive Director said: “Two deadly typhoons in a span of one week in the world’s most disaster-prone country must be enough to convince the government leaders of the Philippines and…

Oxfam Philippines responds to Typhoon Kalmaegi

November 7, 2025

Responding to the impact of Typhoon Kalmaegi (local name Tino) and a potential Super Typhoon Fung-wong (local name Uwan), which could hit the country by this weekend or early next week, Maria Rosario Felizco, Oxfam Philippines Executive Director said: “Typhoon Kalmaegi carved a path of devastation, leaving a massive humanitarian emergency in its wake. The…

Oxfam Canada reacts to Budget 2025

November 7, 2025

Budget 2025 offers little relief to the most vulnerable At a moment when inequality is deepening and poverty is climbing, few measures within Budget 2025 address the affordability crisis felt acutely by people across the country. On the whole, the much-anticipated budget falls short of the scale of investment needed in social infrastructure to ensure…

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