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5 hotspots where COVID-19 is making people hungry

September 17, 2020

  by | Replace this with image credit information Unlike COVID-19, hunger is not new. Millions…

Hearts have broken many times over Beirut but never like this

August 21, 2020

For as long as I can remember, Beirut has occupied a part of my heart in…

‘There is no focus on domestic workers’: The invisible workforce in Bangladesh during COVID-19

June 11, 2020

Running water, electricity or technology that allows you to stay connected with your friends and family…

A water engineer tries to work miracles in Burkina Faso in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

June 8, 2020

Is it possible to practice good hygiene without clean water? Huguette Yago faces a challenge of…

The invisible pandemic that’s been years in the making

May 12, 2020

The world is suffering through a pandemic unlike any other. It has been shutting down households,…

Coronavirus and the case for care: Envisioning a just, feminist future

May 7, 2020

There’s no ‘pause’ button for care The Coronavirus is highlighting just how essential care work –…

What keeps me up at night: COVID-19, abortion and protecting women’s rights

April 28, 2020

COVID-19 has been overwhelming. Like many people these days,  I am up at night, worried about…

Economy & COVID-19: twin train wrecks for the women who make our clothes

April 24, 2020

While we are in the midst of the most significant global public health crisis of our…

Gender justice and women’s rights

April 20, 2020

Every day, in every country in the world, women are confronted by discrimination and inequality. They…

COVID-19 may be borderless, but privilege isn’t

April 20, 2020

PANDEMIC. Until February 2020, this word was one without much meaning for anyone born before 1918…

5 ways Oxfam’s Feminist Leadership is in Action

April 19, 2020

Formed five years ago, the Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) Regional Women’s Rights and Gender Justice…

Cancel the debt so doctors and nurses can keep saving lives

April 14, 2020

This open letter is a call for urgent action from doctors and nurses on the front…

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OTTAWA, ON, March 16, 2026 – Canada’s leading aid organizations – joining forces as the Humanitarian Coalition – are raising critical funds to rush life-saving assistance to people in need in Lebanon, Syria and across the wider region. Since February 28, the escalating military violence in the Middle East has been worsening and widening, with humanitarian…

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Oxfam and partners are responding to the immediate needs of people who have been forcibly displaced by Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion of Lebanon, as the conflict across the region enters a dramatically new and dangerous phase. Oxfam in Lebanon is scaling up its emergency response by supporting thousands of people across shelters in Mount…

Millions of people across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia facing drought crisis, as cost of water increases by 2000% in worst hit areas – Oxfam

March 5, 2026

Failed October–December rains have pushed nearly 26 million people into extreme hunger in East Africa. 58 million people do not have access to clean drinking water. Millions of livestock are at risk as drought devastate grazing lands and water sources, threatening pastoralist livelihoods. Failure of the last rainy season across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia is…

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