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G7 2025: A Summit of Missed Opportunities

June 27, 2025

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

June 26, 2025

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Easing the burden on mothers in refugee camps

June 6, 2025

For many refugees, one of the toughest things they have to face while trying to survive…

Announcing the 2025 SRHR Grant Recipients Empowering Communities

June 5, 2025

Oxfam Canada is pleased to announce the second round of the Stand Up for SRHR Financial Support for Community-Based…

Oxfam and ally NGOs Urge Canada to Act on Gaza in Joint Press Briefing

May 23, 2025

Earlier this week, Israel announced that it will allow a limited amount of aid into Gaza.…

Pregnancy Amid the Gaza Aid Block: A Mother’s Fight

May 9, 2025

“I found out I was pregnant during the war.”   News of a growing family is…

Cities besieged, bakeries bombed, fields set alight: it’s time to end the use of starvation as a weapon of war

May 2, 2025
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Four Years of Action: How Far Have Canadian Brands Come?

April 24, 2025
Six young women standing in a line holding pink, yellow and green protest signs in Bengali and English to compensate workers

Twelve years ago, the world watched in horror as the Rana Plaza collapsed in Bangladesh. In…

Your Vote, Your Power: What’s at Stake?

April 14, 2025

Canada’s next Federal Election is now in full swing, and the stakes couldn’t be higher considering…

On the Ground in Gaza: Oxfam’s Humanitarian Update

April 10, 2025

It’s been over a month since any humanitarian aid entered Gaza.   With Gaza under total siege…

$10 a Day Child Care: Will Provinces Embrace This Made-in-Canada Solution for Families and the Economy?

April 2, 2025

Just four years ago, high child care fees were a massive barrier for families, keeping children…

A Visit to Cape Town: Lessons from the Global Movement for Fair Care Work

March 26, 2025

Imagine waking up every day to care for others – cooking, fetching water, helping elders, children,…

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NGOs call on World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) to empower women

August 20, 2015

The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) aims at major global reforms to better protect and assist people affected by crisis. The undersigned organisations call on the WHS to put women’s leadership, gender equality and gender-based violence (GBV) at the heart of these reforms. Research and experience have demonstrated how the failure to address the gendered impacts…

Malakal IDP camp, South Sudan. Fighting has forced more than a million people from their homes, and up to 50,000 children are at risk of dying from malnutrition if they don't receive adequate humanitarian aid. Photo Credit: Simon Rawles/Oxfam

Civilians need peace urgently as talks face further delay

August 18, 2015

Juba, SOUTH SUDAN – Delaying peace may have serious consequences for South Sudanese civilians who are enduring their 20th month of a brutal civil war, aid agencies Oxfam, CARE and IRC warned today. The people of South Sudan need and deserve an immediate cessation of hostilities and lasting peace for any hope of sustainable development…

Oxfam Volunteers, as part of the Up for Debate initiative during the 2015 federal election, created their own awareness campaign to encourage a political debate centered around women's issues.

Federal Party Leaders Not Up For Debating Gender Equality

August 12, 2015

Federal Party Leaders Not Up For Debating Gender Equality One week into Canada’s federal election campaign, party leaders have failed to put women’s rights and gender equality issues up for debate. The Up for Debate campaign, led by a broad coalition of 175 organizations, has collected over 50,000 signatures from people across Canada calling for a nationally…

Oxfam Volunteers, as part of the Up for Debate initiative during the 2015 federal election, created their own awareness campaign to encourage a political debate centered around women's issues.

Oxfam Canada hosts activists from across the country

August 10, 2015

In fact, that’s almost exactly what we call it:  Change Leadership Summit! As in all of our organizational work, the week’s activities will be based on a strong gender analysis that sees championing women’s rights as essential to overcoming the injustice of poverty and inequality. Oxfam Canada has long worked with volunteers across the country…

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