June is widely marked worldwide as a Pride month – a celebration of the LGBTQI+ community…
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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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Inequality contributes to the death of at least one person every four seconds. Ahead of the…
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Flood deaths hit 13-year high and more than 100 countries break monthly temperature records
Flood deaths have hit a 13-year high this year, while 106 countries have broken monthly temperature records. The carbon pollution of someone in the richest 1 percent has contributed 100 times more to today’s extreme heatwaves than that of someone in the poorest half of humanity. Since 7 November, 87 private jets, including Nigerian billionaire…
Reaction: Severe flooding in Gaza
In response to the severe flooding in Gaza, Wassem Mushtaha, Oxfam’s Response Lead in Gaza said: “Last night six people – a mother with her two children and three other children from the same family – were killed when a sand embankment collapsed onto their tent. They had been sheltering among forcibly displaced families in…
REACTION: Budget 2026 helps at the margins but bets big on business – Oxfam Canada
Yesterday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the second budget of Mark Carney’s government. Against a backdrop of a relentless affordability crisis in Canada and growing global instability, Budget 2026 takes real steps to support people through expanded income supports, new investments in housing and homelessness, and $32 billion over 10 years for First Nations housing…
Every 20 minutes, Canada’s private jets emit more carbon pollution than the average Canadian does in a year
New Oxfam report lands days before the November 5 federal budget, a year after Ottawa ended the luxury tax on private planes. In 2025, 71,239 private jet flights left Canada, emitting more than 333,000 tonnes of CO2. In 11 minutes, those jets emitted more CO2 than someone in the poorest half of Canada’s population emits…