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Somalia 2013 Conference: “You can’t wash your face using only one finger”
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Gaza: Leaders of major aid groups call on world leaders to intervene following UN genocide conclusion
The leaders of over 20 major aid agencies working in Gaza are calling on world leaders to urgently intervene after a UN commission concluded, for the first time, that genocide is being committed. The statement is below: “As world leaders convene next week at the United Nations, we are calling on all member states to…
Not In My Name
Ottawa, ON — September 16, 2025 — Today, over 70 prominent Canadians, including actors, scholar, artists, and activists came together to say “Not In My Name” demanding that the Canadian government end its complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. This campaign, coordinated by Oxfam Canada, is a sweeping public outcry against silence, inaction,…
Oxfam Canada highlights top priorities as Parliament begins Fall sitting
As MPs and Senators return to Ottawa to begin the Fall sitting of Parliament, Oxfam Canada recognizes the complex challenges the federal government faces. These include geopolitical and trade tensions at our own border and beyond, the rising cost of living, climate chaos, growing authoritarianism, and the rapid evolution of powerful emerging technologies like A.I.…
Oxfam: Palestinians pushed into deeper crisis with Israeli displacement order on entire Gaza City
1 million people being forced towards unliveable, so called “humanitarian area” in mass forced displacement. Israel’s intent to displace around 1 million civilians, half of whom are living in famine, is impossible and illegal Oxfam said today, while the Israeli military continued to flatten Gaza City building by building as its mass forced displacement of…