What is famine? Definition, causes, and how to stop it
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Adeline: A Young Activist’s Journey in Breaking Stigmas in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
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G7 2025: A Summit of Missed Opportunities
From June 15-17, leaders from the world’s most powerful economies gathered in Kananaskis, Alberta for the…
Rich polluter profits tax could raise up to $400 billion and help phase out fossil fuels
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Easing the burden on mothers in refugee camps
For many refugees, one of the toughest things they have to face while trying to survive…
Oxfam Canada is pleased to announce the second round of the Stand Up for SRHR Financial Support for Community-Based…
Earlier this week, Israel announced that it will allow a limited amount of aid into Gaza.…
“I found out I was pregnant during the war.” News of a growing family is…
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Four Years of Action: How Far Have Canadian Brands Come?
Twelve years ago, the world watched in horror as the Rana Plaza collapsed in Bangladesh. In…
Your Vote, Your Power: What’s at Stake?
Canada’s next Federal Election is now in full swing, and the stakes couldn’t be higher considering…
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Food shortages and funding gap push extra 700,000 people to verge of starvation in Ethiopia
In response to the newly released Humanitarian Response Document by the Government of Ethiopia, Victoria Hopkins, Humanitarian Manager at Oxfam Canada said: “The third poor rainy season in a row has plunged 700,000 more people into crippling hunger and on the verge of starvation in the Somali region of southern Ethiopia. Now in the midst…
Oxfam Canada Statement on Canada’s first Feminist International Assistance Policy
On June 9, 2017, Minister of International Cooperation Marie-Claude Bibeau launched Canada’s first Feminist International Assistance Policy – the result of an internal review and consultations with more than 15,000 people in 65 countries that began in the spring of 2016. The new policy is ambitious, putting women’s rights and gender equality squarely at the…
Oxfam brings aid to 23,000 people in India
Heavy, sustained rains across the northeastern states in India caused extensive damage and affected close to 400,000 people as the Brahmaputra River and its tributaries overflowed, causing widespread and devastating flooding. The rains triggered by cyclone Mora began in late June and continued into July. Communities already living below the poverty line in Assam province…
Yemen cholera worst on record & numbers still rising
The number of people with cholera in Yemen is now the largest ever in any country in a single year since records began, Oxfam said today. At more than 360,000 suspected cholera cases in just three months since the outbreak started, it now tops the previous annual record of 340,311 in Haiti in 2011. Though…