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…
My heart sank when I heard about the leaked U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion to overturn…
We’re living at a time of unprecedented global displacement. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees…
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June is widely marked worldwide as a Pride month – a celebration of the LGBTQI+ community…
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…
Women, gender diverse people and other equity-deserving groups have been hard hit by the COVID-19 recession,…
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Gas tax holiday extension won’t ease affordability crisis for Canadians
Gas tax holiday extension won’t ease affordability crisis for Canadians Canadians need real relief from the cost-of-living crisis that’s hitting them from all directions. They’re feeling it when they buy food, and they’re feeling it at the pump, where gas prices in July were more than 25 per cent higher compared to last year. Last week, in an effort to address affordability, the government announced an extension to the…
In Somalia famine risk increases as hunger worsens amid El-Nino floods
Reacting to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis for Somalia, which shows 5.4 million people are projected to face acute hunger, including 26,000 at risk of famine in Baidoa, Bay region, Juliet Moriku Balikowa, Oxfam Somalia Country Director said: “One in four people in Somalia is now going hungry while Baidoa and surrounding…
REACTION: Gaza building collapse
Following the overnight collapse of a war-damaged building leaving 20 deaths and dozens trapped, rescue efforts are being severely hampered by Israel’s refusal to allow entry of the heavy machinery and equipment needed to save lives amidst the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Wassem Mushtaha, Oxfam’s Response Lead in Gaza, said: “Today’s death toll…
Parliament is set to return and we’re calling on the government to take action on the climate crisis, global development, and investing in and supporting the Palestinian-led reconstruction of Gaza – we need your support
Next week is a big week in Ottawa. Members of Parliament are returning from all across the country to take up their duties in the House of Commons. A lot has happened since they left for summer break, and that means there’s a lot of work ahead for our government. Here’s what happened over the…